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Diary of a Broken Android Table of Contents (Updated Weekly)

Serial Fiction: After the incident at Hotel Dawson, Bruno, a broken android, paces endlessly through his adoptive parents’ house. He can’t stop walking…

Feb 14•Adrian Fares

Diary of a Broken Android — Day 32

The news is out. The killer may be one of us.

7 hrs ago•Adrian Fares

Diary of a Broken Android — Day 31

Bruno keeps walking endlessly, drowning in guilt, wondering if he could become the next monster. Day 31 of Diary of a Broken Android.

May 28•Adrian Fares

The Turning House

Jan 1•Adrian Fares

The Contract with Myself

Jan 27•Adrian Fares

The Real Story of a Man Who Made It Rain (And Why I Gave Up)

Feb 22•Adrian Fares

The Man Who Asked to Change His Age

Mar 18•Adrian Fares

The Project of His Life / Lucía

Feb 28•Adrian Fares

Complete Guide to This Substack and Recent Posts

A Guide to Everything on Adrian Fares' Substack

A complete guide to serialized novels, short stories, poetry, and personal chronicles by Adrian Fares—fiction writer, screenwriter, and film director—on…

Oct 1, 2025•Adrian Fares

Shelter

On losing what once kept you safe. A poem.

May 6•Adrian Fares

The Submerged Animal

A psychologist confronts a killer orca, a daughter who presses her cheek to the glass, and the nothing he carries across the city.

May 1•Adrian Fares

The Riviera Bureaucratic Bestiary: Letter 1

A detective from 2084 writes to me. His job: tracking down illegally printed genetic creatures.

Apr 22•Adrian Fares

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The Last Exhibition

A Short Story. She's not a killer. She's an artist.

Apr 17•Adrian Fares

I’ll Wait for You on the Roof

A child floats to the ceiling of a shopping mall. No one finds this particularly unusual.

Apr 2•Adrian Fares

Diary of a Broken Android — Day 30: The Interrogation

Bruno, a domestic android, is summoned to a high-security prison for interrogation as a series of murders puts all androids under suspicion. Accused of…

Mar 31•Adrian Fares

Poem: The Man Without Touch

A poem about a man without a sense of touch, and what it means to feel again.

Mar 27•Adrian Fares

The Man Who Asked to Change His Age

In this short story, a journalist meets Roberto at yoga class. What he discovers over a beer is a story about twenty years locked in a shed, a…

Mar 18•Adrian Fares

How to Write a Screenplay in the 21st Century (and the 22nd, Too)

Most screenwriting advice is wrong. What a scriptment is and why you need one.

Mar 17•Adrian Fares

Diary of a Broken Android. Day 29: Between Heaven and Hell

Bruno waves goodbye to a mannequin that looks like Ara. A serial killer still at large. A car ride between Father and Mother singing Christian songs…

Mar 16•Adrian Fares