About Morgan Stern
The Alternate Timeline of Morgan Stern is a collection of mysteries set in a not-too-distant future when human involvement in journalism is a rotting formality.
The Alternate Timeline of Morgan Stern is a collection of mysteries set in a not-too-distant future when human involvement in journalism is a rotting formality. Despite this, Stern (tech journalist for Tempus Quarterly) hunts for the truth behind matters that would otherwise get ignored or covered up by the ruling algorithms. She stores such truths in hand-written notebooks—unattributed, hidden and scattered across all Usonia, in hopes that they’ll be found, someday, in a brighter timeline.
Who is Morgan Stern?
Well, she’s a complicated tech journalist in the year 2075, and no one understands her, but the mysterious hacker named “8” who regularly sneaks her leads on mysteries worth unraveling. She publishes none of her findings—that’s far too dangerous—and instead, hides physical copies of her reports so that the truth will hopefully be revealed to future generations down the line.
Morgan lives in what could be an alternate timeline from our own, or our very same timeline with a warped sense of history. We won’t truly know until we ring in the year 2075.
But here’s some of what we do know…
What we call the United States of America, she calls Usonia.
And according to Usonian text pads, Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated… yet still died before he could grant the Affriterran descendants of slaves their 60 acres and a buffalo.
Usonia has two main political parties, four main corporations (swiftly becoming three), three curators who rotate as president each year until their collective 12-years term reaches its end.
And, most importantly, the mythical turkey as its national bird.
In Usonia, human reporters are the minority of a mostly mechanized reporting system. Self-regulated algorithms push out photos, event summaries, and backing data to tech journalists and their only options in return are to give it a stamp of approval or send it back for re-assessment.
Despite this, Stern yearns for the truth. And as one of the few tech journalists with working class parentage, her reasons get quite personal.
You can look forward to new Morgan Stern stories at the end of just about every month here at .