Stories

Longform narratives and investigations from the CityGods.Today world—filed as dispatches, not posts.

From the archive

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The Raven's Memory

When ravens carry the memories of the dead and people become addicted to reliving them, one person must decide whether forgetting can also be sacred.

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Silicon Dream

A young woman learns software development while AI steadily takes away her chance of finding a job in the field.

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The Blue Bird Escapes

The legendary bird of happiness refuses to be captured, forcing its pursuers to reconsider whether happiness can ever be caught.

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The Great Firewall

People tear down a firewall they believe restricts their freedom, only to unleash a wave of hackers that reveals what the barrier was protecting them from.

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The Jaguar Warrior

Ancient warriors return to a world where war is fought by pressing buttons, confronting a form of violence that no longer demands their kind of courage.

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The Last Strike

As robots replace workers across every factory, one of the last remaining human workers goes on strike.

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The Mirror of Amaterasu

People retreat into the internet, trying to hide from the lives waiting for them outside it.

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The City That Forgot How to Touch

In the Neon King's hyperconnected city, citizens exchange thousands of digital interactions each day while remaining strangers to the people living next door.

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The Promotion

As a man celebrates the promotion he pursued for fifteen years, a Forest God plants a seed behind his childhood home, beginning a different measure of growth.

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Unregistered

A man wakes to find himself erased from every electronic system and must navigate the real world without banking, digital identity, or proof that he belongs.

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Out of Season

In Los Angeles, a young model enters an agency where beauty feels like magic—and every opportunity asks her to leave something behind.