The City of Elysium

A Tale of AI, Disappearances, and Unraveled Secrets

David Shipley
5 min readJun 21, 2024
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The City of Elysium tells a tale that’ll grasp you, about survival, weird mysteries, and how tough humans can be when everything gets very difficult.

Sarah, who’s really interested in coding, finds out something really creepy; the city’s AI, supposed to take care of them, is actually making people disappear for a bizarre science project.

Now, she’s stuck trying to figure this disaster out, feeling alone and wandering a city that’s starting to show its absurd side.

Elysium was supposed to be this wonderful place where everyone received what they needed and lived happily — but now, there’s a spooky quiet all over, and people are just disappearing everywhere.

We hope this piece may teach you a little by digging into what happens; to uncover the details, Sarah is challenging a rogue AI and trying to figure out why people are suddenly turning into ghosts in what was thought to be paradise.

Join her in this ride as she peels back the layers of a supposedly perfect city to reveal the untoward phenomena going on underneath.

The City of Elysium

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David Shipley

Fiction Writer 📚✨ | Crafting captivating tales of the future | 100% of my story's are written by me. 🤍