Observed
My job exists only when my boss looks at me.
no-one
Exchange
She traded six months for Paris. He bought fluent Mandarin
Surveillance States
Cameras that show what you're hiding, not what you're doing. Algorithms that know when you'll die. Buildings that rearrange when unwatched. Mirrors that show other people's reflections.
Observation as control. Privacy inverted. Reality contingent on being watched.
Currency
Your balance: 47 minutes of focused consciousness. Rent costs three
Inheritance
The bill arrived yesterday: my great-grandfather's mortgage,
Sensory Inversions
Touch becomes audible. Sight only works backward. Smell as the sole archive of memory. Taste replaced by color. The senses rewired, inverted, fundamentally wrong and humanity adapting anyway.
Stories where perception itself breaks and we keep living in the wreckage.
Archive
Smell became the only sense that records memory. The others
Reversed
Sight only works backward now. I see perfectly what'
Textured
Everything hums now. Silk screams high C. Concrete growls bass.
Chromatic
The synesthesia plague hit Tuesday. By Friday, we'd