Fiction
Last-Mile Optimism
The delivery bag sat on the apartment building steps like evidence waiting to be logged. Small. Tamper-evident seal.
Marie-Hélène Lebeault · Mar 2026
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T.R.O.(L.L.). All You Can Do Here Is Leave. The Big Man. A Visitor’s Guide to the Disposition. Floyd Haggerty’s Wild West Extravaganza Spectacular!. The Dismantling.
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Thanatosis
Thanatosis on the Central Mast // Liveness Check. Carousel Feeding in the Asteroid Midden // Livelock.
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Trainverse
The Flesh Perfected Is the Flesh Possessed. The Overloaded Train. The Headless Empire. Signals in the Margins.
Building and Burning Bridges
Desire Machines. American Skyway. The Faithful Channel.
The Stockton Chronicles
Caduceus City.
Zoothesia
Perception Must Preserve. Would You Stop Following Me if I Was a Worm?. The Predation Circuit. Day Traitor. Missing Not at Random. Minor Differences Repeating Forever.
Ghosts in the Machine
Soda Sweet as Blood. In Every Lifetime. In the Garden of Eden, Baby. We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us. The House That Paid Its Own Bills. Latency. Genius in the Bottle. Loyalty.
The Librarians
Genesis of Memory. The Curse of Wolves. The Whimsy Index. Phantom in Eden. Songs of Hydropolia. The Last Archive.
Terminological Twist
The Air Gap. Time to Die. Fine Print. DHCP. Noise Ordinance. Zero Knowledge. Fault Tolerance.
The Interregnum Story Contest
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Fiction
The Repossessed
“A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice… if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur.
Amita · Feb 2026
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Fiction
Planetary Tech Support
H3L-PR arrived in low Earth orbit with the quiet precision of a machine that considered efficiency a form of morality.
Marie-Hélène Lebeault · Dec 2025
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Fiction
The Second Glossolalia
The city was still when I woke up, hours before the place would gradually come to life. The weather was gray, and people’s minds matched it.
Sachin · Dec 2025
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Fiction
The Partial
Incident Code: EC-71f – Unauthorized Emotional Non-Compliance Subject: Tessa Vaughn, Resident ID #HLV-847392 Location: Halverton Smart City, Cognitive Efficiency Zone 3 Time: 0947 hours, Local Preference Time Reporting System: Partial Oversight Network v4.2
Marie-Hélène Lebeault · Nov 2025
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Fiction
Mr Cork and the Red Bus
Mr Cork took a sip of his pint at The Victoria pub, near Paddington station. He’d be lying to himself if he didn’t admit that he was a little nervous.
Kannen · Oct 2025
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Fiction
Consensus Nightmares
Chainpoint was founded on a single principle: Code Must Govern.
Spencer Nitkey · Oct 2025
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Essay
The Ductus of Protocol Fiction
An update from our Protocol Fiction SIG takes us under the hood of the emerging genre
Spencer Nitkey · Sep 2026
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Strangeness, Legibility, Hardness
An update from our Protocol Fiction Special Interest Group
Sachin · Mar 2026
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What is Protocol Fiction?
A first report from our protocol fiction writing group, led by regular Protocolized contributors Spencer Nitkey and Sachin Benny. Join tomorrow, Feb 12 and every other Thursday, at 8am Pacific.
Spencer Nitkey · Feb 2026
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