This is the premiere episode of Anthony P. Rothbard's Splitting the Stratum. It is a short journey into a future nuclear family's robot pet adoption, and the following challenges.

Splitting the Stratum #1

A small, agrarian colony looks down on it's only two journalists. That is until a looming crisis shakes the community to its core.

Ep. 02 "A Breaking Story"

Being the first to see what is in store can make you famous. Cintra Mills doesn't want to be famous for the thing that she sees.

Ep #03 Preemptive Decay

Planning and prediction work together to solve the mystery behind fatal crashes. Cutting-edge technology reaches the very edge in this multi-layered story.

Ep #04 Agents

A middle-aged man seeks the meaning of life in a virtual reality network known as Cafeland.

Ep #05 Nirvana Cafe

A teenage girl grieves a friend, is stuck between the affections of two boys and struggles to understand her paranoid delusions.

Ep #06 Folie Á Quatre

Karen and Joe are excited to begin their new careers. Life is wonderful until they learn of their company's hidden agenda.

Ep. #07 A Strange New Venture

Ansel Keppler is a brilliant man with an extraordinary problem. He might be able to solve it if he can fulfill one of humanity's most basic needs.