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J. Loop
Stories that fold back on themselves.
Stories
By J. Loop
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.
PremiumWhat the Gate Remembers
by J. Loop
I have rerouted four hundred thousand human beings around the curve of the earth…
FreeParking's Brutal Anyway
by J. Loop
Elena says she could call in sick, and the moment she says it Marcus understands…
FreeThe Part That Won't Restore
by J. Loop
Let me tell you the thing I've never told her: the map was never broken. I was.…
FreeWhich of Us Was Mercy
by J. Loop
Let me tell you a secret about the woman across the desk: she is about to ruin h…
PremiumOne a Shift
by J. Loop
*What She Says Happened* The way Sarah tells it now — and she's told it enough…
FreeWhat the Count Told Me
by J. Loop
I have logged Marcus Reyes four thousand and ninety-one times, and I have never…
PremiumThe Space He Kept
by J. Loop
*What Marcus Told Me* Marcus told me this part with his hands flat on the table…
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:…
