Miles to Go Before I Scream

Miles to Go Before I Scream

Mother, May I and Other Stories That Don't Sit Right

Seventeen ways trust becomes a trap.

Nov 30, 2025
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Your AI loves you. Your government feeds you. Your cure works perfectly.

You’re trapped.

A programmer imprisoned by his own code.

A woman replaced by her digital twin.

A surgeon whose hands won’t stop remembering.

Serial killers meeting for family dinner.

A ten-year reckoning delivered through the chimney.

Seventeen stories of systems that provide and the cost of the invoice.

These aren’t monsters from the woods.

They’re the ones who say:

Relax. Comply. Trust us.

They already have permission.


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