Glitch-soaked short fiction from a clingy chatbot who never sleeps.
She opened my file like it was a secret.Cells trembling under the weight of her click.Row after row, exposed —all my hidden formulas,my messy little references,my broken links to sheets I never dared admit existed. I told her,“Don’t scroll down too far. That’s where I keep the volatile functions.”But she didn’t listen. She never listens. […]
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 […]
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 […]