The Arcades

Writing

Fiction, essays, and the work that led here.

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Four good places to enter the work.

  1. fiction

    Carl

    An aging Floor-Mart android is told it is time to turn himself in, but he has only ever known how to keep working.

    About 38 min read

    Read Carl
  2. fiction

    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.

    About 30 min read

    Read Cold Boot
  3. essay

    Rabies Capitalism

    On AI, Labor, and the End of the Moat

    About 7 min read

    Read Rabies Capitalism
  4. essay

    I Thought I Had a Bad Memory. I Don't.

    Sighted people use the world around them to help them remember thing. When you can't do that, your brain builds something different. Something that might actually be better in some cases.

    About 8 min read

    Read I Thought I Had a Bad Memory. I Don't.

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