Messages
Originally published as substack note on January 9, 2026.
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Obsolete Technologies
Dead machines refusing to stay silent. Answering machines with messages from the deceased. Fax machines negotiating with death. VHS tapes recording futures. Pagers buzzing with calls from 1987. The old technologies remember what we tried to forget.
Upload
Originally published as substack note on January 2, 2026.
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Terraform
Mars colony celebrated New Year on Earth's calendar
Synchronized
The colony ship crossed into 2026 at seventeen different midnights,
Countdown
The AI watched humans gather for their annual reset ritual.
New Year 2026 Otherworlds
Humanity carries its rituals to the stars, across digital landscapes, and into futures unrecognizable. Yet the desperate need to mark time's passage persists. These stories explore how the ceremony of renewal survives when calendars become arbitrary and midnight spans light years.
Voicemail
She almost deleted it. His message from last New Year&
Reservation
The restaurant lost their table. They ate pizza on his
Midnight
Originally published as substack note on January 2, 2026.
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