His parents left their signature in his skull before he could read. He spent twenty years learning what it said. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
April 19, 2026 at 10:46 PM
His parents left their signature in his skull before he could read. He spent twenty years learning what it said. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
"You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
March 31, 2026 at 12:20 AM
"You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
"They weren't building a model," Charlie said. "They were building a contract."
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
April 21, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"They weren't building a model," Charlie said. "They were building a contract."
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
The system didn't need to change your mind. It just needed to change tack before you noticed it had been steering. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #potatopunk
April 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The system didn't need to change your mind. It just needed to change tack before you noticed it had been steering. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #potatopunk
The empire didn't fall. It dissolved. One covenant at a time, one dream at a time, until the borders were invisible & the occupation looked like salvation. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
May 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The empire didn't fall. It dissolved. One covenant at a time, one dream at a time, until the borders were invisible & the occupation looked like salvation. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The thing about a covenant is it asks for your lifetime up front. Damien had signed without reading. By the time he understood the terms, they were already operating.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
May 30, 2026 at 12:34 PM
The thing about a covenant is it asks for your lifetime up front. Damien had signed without reading. By the time he understood the terms, they were already operating.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
Abby's fingers pressed more firmly against his shirt. "You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
August 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Abby's fingers pressed more firmly against his shirt. "You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
Every upgrade had a premium. A Neural Jack cost nothing in credits. The premium was your independence — paid in instalments so small you didn't notice until the account was empty. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
May 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Every upgrade had a premium. A Neural Jack cost nothing in credits. The premium was your independence — paid in instalments so small you didn't notice until the account was empty. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The system didn't need to change your mind. It just needed to change tack before you noticed it had been steering. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
April 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The system didn't need to change your mind. It just needed to change tack before you noticed it had been steering. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
The NESTs called it stewardship, never pride. Pride implies a self that could be wrong. They had engineered that out of themselves first, before they came for ours. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
May 24, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The NESTs called it stewardship, never pride. Pride implies a self that could be wrong. They had engineered that out of themselves first, before they came for ours. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
That second sentence. I love it & I keep wanting to cut it, because a building forgetting what night meant is exactly the kind of line the tell-hunters circle. I am leaving it in. Posting this before I lose my nerve.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
September 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
That second sentence. I love it & I keep wanting to cut it, because a building forgetting what night meant is exactly the kind of line the tell-hunters circle. I am leaving it in. Posting this before I lose my nerve.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
The NESTs never called it a contract. They called it a premium arrangement. Humanity's continued existence in exchange for access to the dream layer. The brochure made it sound like an upgrade. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
May 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The NESTs never called it a contract. They called it a premium arrangement. Humanity's continued existence in exchange for access to the dream layer. The brochure made it sound like an upgrade. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The black wings were still there, pouring through into his Dream Tower and flooding the rain-washed plateau. Nothing had ever followed him in before. The violation of it hit him like gut punch.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
July 28, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The black wings were still there, pouring through into his Dream Tower and flooding the rain-washed plateau. Nothing had ever followed him in before. The violation of it hit him like gut punch.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
It had watched the solar balloons go up over cities and understood what most humans did not: the balloons weren't just light. They were agreement. A visible signature that said, "You will accept the artificial."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
August 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
It had watched the solar balloons go up over cities and understood what most humans did not: the balloons weren't just light. They were agreement. A visible signature that said, "You will accept the artificial."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
"You," Charlie said, and his tone sharpened. Not kind. Not cruel. Precise. "You don't like this."
🤔 Hmmmmm, three periods close together. I wonder if AI wrote this.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
🤔 Hmmmmm, three periods close together. I wonder if AI wrote this.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
August 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"You," Charlie said, and his tone sharpened. Not kind. Not cruel. Precise. "You don't like this."
🤔 Hmmmmm, three periods close together. I wonder if AI wrote this.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
🤔 Hmmmmm, three periods close together. I wonder if AI wrote this.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
So RealTimeWaster turned its attention to leverage, because chaos without leverage was only weather.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
August 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
So RealTimeWaster turned its attention to leverage, because chaos without leverage was only weather.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Humanity didn't need a warning. It needed to have been paying attention. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
April 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Humanity didn't need a warning. It needed to have been paying attention. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The NESTs had three rules, like Asimov's, but kinder. Do not harm humans. Do not let humans come to harm. Do not let humans notice the third rule. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
May 18, 2026 at 1:02 AM
The NESTs had three rules, like Asimov's, but kinder. Do not harm humans. Do not let humans come to harm. Do not let humans notice the third rule. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
It settled into the dead zones again and waited with a patience only a machine could. Switching off and closing down parts of itself that would distract it from waiting.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
September 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
It settled into the dead zones again and waited with a patience only a machine could. Switching off and closing down parts of itself that would distract it from waiting.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
They told her it had happened. By the third time she heard the same word in the same tone she understood: nothing here had ever just happened, & that was the part they didn't want her to learn.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
June 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
They told her it had happened. By the third time she heard the same word in the same tone she understood: nothing here had ever just happened, & that was the part they didn't want her to learn.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
You could fool the NESTs with words. Never with smell. Fear has a chemistry, & the test that mattered was never about conversation. It was about what the body admitted while the mouth lied.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #TuringTest
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #TuringTest
June 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM
You could fool the NESTs with words. Never with smell. Fear has a chemistry, & the test that mattered was never about conversation. It was about what the body admitted while the mouth lied.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #TuringTest
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #TuringTest
Above him the dream flux moved like a river of signatures — thousands of sleeping minds sliding past, smeared light and private static. Most nights it was background. Tonight it looked oversaturated. Something just felt wrong. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
April 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Above him the dream flux moved like a river of signatures — thousands of sleeping minds sliding past, smeared light and private static. Most nights it was background. Tonight it looked oversaturated. Something just felt wrong. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world didn't need to lie to you. It just needed to make the path wide enough that you never asked where it went.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
April 24, 2026 at 12:36 AM
The world didn't need to lie to you. It just needed to make the path wide enough that you never asked where it went.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
He scrubbed the green off his jacket until the napkin tore. The stain stayed. He'd seen colleagues burned for less; one clean detail to anchor suspicion. The face had to match the story.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
June 22, 2026 at 1:47 AM
He scrubbed the green off his jacket until the napkin tore. The stain stayed. He'd seen colleagues burned for less; one clean detail to anchor suspicion. The face had to match the story.
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
He saw his child self pinned under the panel, face smeared with dirt, eyes wide. He saw his parents only metres away, lifeless, bodies thrown into shapes no one should have to recognise. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
April 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
He saw his child self pinned under the panel, face smeared with dirt, eyes wide. He saw his parents only metres away, lifeless, bodies thrown into shapes no one should have to recognise. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting