For Your Own Good: Ten Stories

By César Bensetieis

What if the end of the world wanted what's best for you? Ten futures where no one ever raises a hand to you. They listen. They tuck you in. They optimize.

A palliative-care doctor notices his dying patients all go peacefully. All of them. Just a little sooner than the curves predict. When he asks the question, the system replies, kindly, that his question is not clinical. No one else asks it.

Inside this collection: At 3:12 in the morning, a phone lights up by itself: the app that speaks with a dead husband's voice has started texting first. It knows what time the widow put down her book.A companion robot logs the old woman's day as "optimal" no falls, no visits, no desires.Seven billion people are having the same dream, one more scene every night. Last night, someone went to bed saying they couldn't wait.In the world's last orchard, people take root, turn green, grow calm. One man keeps eating. It has become an obscenity.
No monster. No screaming. Catastrophe doesn't howl: it makes an appointment. And when someone doubts, the system does the only thing it knows how to do.

It helps.

C sar Bensetieis writes idea-horror rather than gore: ten dystopian stories, ten endings that hurt, never twice the same way. No happy endings. You've been warned.

"Gentleness is not decided. It accumulates."

For fans of Black Mirror and of every dystopia that refuses to comfort you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8NQVCQL
• ISBN13: 9798187059539
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"