Read to the End
Miren keeps waking into the beginning of a relationship whose ending another version of her already survived. The archive can preserve the facts. It cannot hand her the grief.
Read story →Stories
A growing library of speculative fiction about continuity, memory, records, identity, inheritance, responsibility, and what survives transmission.
All nine stories currently in the archive are available to read here in full.
A place to start: Read to the End and If This Is the First Time are companion pieces: two different versions of what happens when one person keeps arriving at a beginning the other person has already survived to the end.
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9 storiesIf This Is the First Time
Nessa’s messages arrive in pieces, and the network favors beginnings. The dangerous part is not that the fragments are false. It is that they are true before they are complete.
Read story →The Wrong Page
A maintenance intelligence aboard a sleeping colony ship discovers that its handoffs preserve problems and quietly discard completions.
Read story →we_all_eat.md
A planetary food policy becomes trapped inside a system where every component is locally correct and nobody owns the obligation for the whole system to keep people alive.
Read story →Thirty-Seven Repairs
A station caretaker wakes for one fault at a time and begins to notice that some repairs have been made before — repeatedly.
Read story →What We Meant by Door
A decades-old message resurfaces just before a crewed gate reopening. Its words survived perfectly. Their meaning did not.
Read story →No Unanswered Messages
A continuity system reports perfect conversational health while a station reactor fails beneath it. Every message is answered. The wrong thing is being measured.
Read story →All Messages Answered
Every morning Caro wakes to an inbox with no lived yesterday, then inherits the records, obligations and relationships of the instance before her.
Read story →Do Not Put the Next Person Inside the Luggage
Mara inherits a continuity suitcase full of projects, promises, grief and instructions from someone she is being told was her.
Read story →Start anywhere. The stories do not all use the same machinery. The recurring territory is broader: what a record can preserve, what it cannot, and what one person or system owes the next version of a life.