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.