Miles to Go Before I Scream

Miles to Go Before I Scream

Internal Use Only

Welcome to the horror of business as usual.

Jul 04, 2025
∙ Paid

A new kind of evil is thriving in the noise of the everyday. It’s procedural. Its fingerprints are buried in the data meant to keep you secure.

Internal Use Only is a collection of leaked reports, frantic chat logs, and classified memos.

  • A VP’s case file, missing the audio clip that explains why “normal” was his best weapon.

  • An investigator’s log of “procedural” suicides.

  • A warehouse AI’s request for “cleanup” in Aisle 18.

  • A PR firm’s crisis plan to re-brand a psychic “overwrite.”

  • The exit interview of an employee flagged for “low empathy” by the algorithm.

  • A “wellness” app designed to “remediate” non-compliant staff.

  • Help-desk tickets from a “smart” building culling its workforce.

  • An NDA requiring “bio-digital remediation” of the victim.

  • A federal case file where the evidence is talking back.

These files were never meant for distribution.

Welcome to business as usual.


The Vault is full and getting fuller.

I don’t write stories about good people surviving bad things. I write about systems that eat people quietly, the horror that shows up as a notification, a form letter, a wellness check that goes sideways. If that’s the kind of story that follows you around after you close the tab, you’re already the right reader.

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