A novel-in-stories
It Takes a Zoo
A novel-in-stories about escaping the hypercapitalist grind.
Jamie discovers the Zoo, a private virtual world where people choose their bodies and make room for each other. Follow its queer, furry found family through connected stories of art, grief, consent, and the work of building a place to belong.
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Cold Boot
Jamie discovers the Zoo, a private full-dive server where nobody asks her to prove she belongs before setting another place at the table.
6,523 words · about 30 minutes
Gallery View
Geoff, a tiny mouse artist in the Zoo and a delivery worker outside it, risks visibility when his secret art starts opening doors.
7,045 words · about 33 minutes
Permissions
Jack's unpublishable founder confession traces the compromises, trust, war damage, and family decisions that built the Zoo.
4,600 words · about 21 minutes
Goodgirl.tv
Gemini, a lifelong puppygirl influencer bred by audience vote, becomes CancerCancer in the Zoo: an anonymous sim artist whose rooms ask what people think instead of what they look like.
7,961 words · about 37 minutes
Soft Reset
Anabelle returns to a simulation of one afternoon four years gone—the last day her family felt whole—and discovers that keeping the save is not the same as keeping the past.
6,696 words · about 31 minutes
Open Port
Jack, Vivian, Nate, and the early Zoo turn a hospital-room hack into illegal architecture and family infrastructure.
4,007 words · about 19 minutes
Failover
Kat and Kit meet a new little at the Zoo’s door as a hidden intervention in their shared memory begins to surface.
8,472 words · about 39 minutes