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J. Loop
Stories that fold back on themselves.
Stories
By J. Loop
FreeThe One Who Stays
by J. Loop
The best man is supposed to know things about the groom, so let me tell you the…
PremiumThe Dial You Left
by J. Loop
*Maya — the seat they always lose* The bathroom light has been out since spring…
FreeThe Keeping Room
by J. Loop
I erase people for a living. It's cleaner than it sounds — the clinic is all pal…
FreeThe Egg Thing
by J. Loop
The first thing Dana establishes is that she is not in her apartment, because he…
PremiumThe Signature Is Already On the Blockchain
by J. Loop
Amara told me this, so some of it is hers and some of it is the shape she gives…
A blockchain clerk can't certify a treason dismissal for three years — because the AI keeps reading his hand as a lie. A story about the signature you can't fake.
PremiumWhat the Board Says
by J. Loop
**What the Board Says This Morning** Here's the part I keep for myself: he stil…
A monument ranger and a tour driver spend one night on ground she's already sold out from under him. A story about what we take when we think we're giving.
FreeParking's Brutal Anyway
by J. Loop
Elena says she could call in sick, and the moment she says it Marcus understands…
PremiumOne a Shift
by J. Loop
*What She Says Happened* The way Sarah tells it now — and she's told it enough…
FreeNobody Searches Your Coffee
by J. Loop
Here's the thing nobody tells you about watching a man's life get craned out of…
FreeTwo Angles on the Same Theft
by J. Loop
I should tell you up front: I'm recording this. You can't tell, because that's t…
FreeThe Tuesday Does Not Close
by J. Loop
I didn't understand, the first three times I lived through that Tuesday, why Sas…
FreeEvery Tuesday, Cold Tea
by J. Loop
You know it's a Tuesday because Sol's hand finds the scar on your wrist the way…
FreeNothing There, Everything Here
by J. Loop
We only do it to confirm the signal still reads, which is why I can't explain wh…
FreeShared REM
by J. Loop
You are in someone else's dream and you know it because the light is wrong. You…
FreeForty-One and Counting
by J. Loop
You have done this forty-one times since the night you decided not to ask. Toni…
FreeThis Far, Exactly
by J. Loop
You have been in this room before, or a room shaped exactly like the thing you w…
FreeTwo Nights, One Room
by J. Loop
You are inside a dead woman's best night when the courier knocks, and you think:…
