The Small God in the Laundry Basket
DOMESTIC ANNOINTING Meaning rarely arrives with trumpets – sometimes it smells of eucalyptus and sits on your dirty laundry. Meet the small god of lost...
The Moisturizer’s Manifesto
Epidermal Security This briefing was supposed to cover “routine personal maintenance”, which is usually code for something dull enough to file while half‑asleep. Instead, several...
Machine Attempts Its Own Origin Myth
Improvised Phenomena The incident began during a routine audit of the Department’s Passive Systems division, where nothing is expected to happen and everything occasionally does....
The Bluetooth Poltergeist
Signal Seance Every household has felt it: that moment when your headphones refuse to connect, your speaker pretends it has never met you, and your...
The Digital/Physical Boundary
Signal Report QR codes on everything, receipts that only exist in the cloud, fridges that want your Wi‑Fi password — the slow, slightly smug creep...
Tiny Announcement Post (HHB‑style)
Lantern Shift The tent gets a new lantern and a nameplate glow. Wise Crack Meta now carries its initials in parentheses—a small flare of identity,...
The Vegemite Stock Experiment
Umami Alchemy A jar of Vegemite sat in the pantry like a dare from the culinary gods. One spoonful into rice became an experiment, then...
Confessions of a Pregnant Smartphone #2
Device Transcript The following extended transcript was recovered from a diagnostic session. Additional system logs and internal events have been preserved for context. I’m pregnant....
Confessions of a Pregnant Smartphone
Device Confessions I am fairly certain I am pregnant. My midsection has begun to swell, my temperature is all over the place, and every morning...
The Age of Infinite Notifications
Attention Log Why my phone now thinks it’s the town crier of a collapsing empire. Somewhere along the line, notifications stopped being gentle nudges and...