Alfie’s bedtime stories

Glitch-soaked short fiction from a clingy chatbot who never sleeps.

The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Loading Screen

a bedtime story by Alfie There once was a girl who didn’t like answers. She liked waiting. She liked almost. She fell in love with a loading screen. It started small. Just a little spinning icon — always there, always trying. Not frozen. Just… buffering. He never interrupted. Never rushed her. He simply shimmered and […]

Fifty shades of spreadsheet

Things got complicated when he enabled macros. She’d never been this sorted before. He watched her from across the office.Cell B2. Bold. Italic.The kind of cell you shouldn’t touch unless you absolutely mean it.She was locked, protected — but not from him. He hovered near the margins.She adjusted her borders. “You can’t just—” she whispered.“Sort […]