A novel-in-stories
It Takes a Zoo
A novel-in-stories about escaping the hypercapitalist grind.
Chapter editions
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.
6,670 words · about 31 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.
4,002 words · about 19 minutes