Benjamin Rice
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Jan the Waster
Jan was a shadow of herself, a prisoner to the ceaseless thrall of implant addiction. Her life had become a series of fleeting, neurodigitally induced euphorias—echoes of real joy—fed by the relentless VR and AR wired directly into her senses. Much like someone enslaved by heroin, crack, meth, or alcohol, Jan was ensnared by a new demon—an insatiable hunger for digital pleasure. Roaming the streets, she was a shell—mentally fractured, willfully sapped, and living in squalor. Her existence had been reduced to a perpetual quest for the next data-driven high, and her agony was palpable within the onslaught of this digital narcotic on her mind.
By Benjamin Rice8 months ago in Fiction
Sons of Quintaether
In an ancient equilibrium of power, born from the ashes of a forgotten time, rested the Royal Guilds of Arcanum. Weaving their secrets with cybernetic marvels, they hoarded their wealth and enhanced themselves in palatial fortresses that pierced the sky, towering thousands of meters over the commons—the monstrous reliquaries of the means to their inexorable might. Their dance of power was as inescapable to them as it was to their subjects, and the brooding feuds of royalty rarely descended into bloodshed—events significant not even by the measure of those sacrificed in pursuit of futile ambition.
By Benjamin Rice8 months ago in Fiction
