Microfiction

Social media accounts posting after their owners die. Smart homes remembering deleted residents. GPS voices guiding through vanished cities. Chatbots trained on the dead. The digital afterlife. Algorithms that mourn. Technology preserving ghosts more faithfully than memory ever could.

An extra star astronomers can't detect. Shared dreams bleeding into waking. Mass agreement that Tuesday never happened. The color everyone pretends not to see. Reality by consensus, perception by collective delusion. What we all see but refuse to acknowledge.

Forms that rewrite your past when submitted. Permits required to experience emotions. Waiting rooms where time moves differently per chair. Identity verified by forgotten passwords. Administrative systems as existential threat. Kafka made literal.

Hair growing six inches nightly, cut by sleeping hands. Breathing stops without consequence. Nourishment from unknown apparatus. Heartbeats syncing to unplugged clocks. Bodies following their own logic, independent of will.

Staircases that remember who climbed them. Rooms that grow to accommodate shame. Borders shifting based on belief. Cities folding into higher dimensions during rush hour. Built environments made metaphysically unstable, responding to memory and emotion.