The Loophole: A Satirical Dystopian Novel

By Alla Kuskova

The system wasn't broken. It was working exactly as designed.

Milo Vane is an Absurdity Arbitrageur. He finds contradictions in the Global Compliance Architecture (GCA)-an all-powerful bureaucracy that tracks every citizen's Fulfillment Score-and sells them back to the people trapped inside. Then a message arrives from three seconds in the future: The intern knows something. Keep her talking.

The intern is June Bellow. Her score is 61.7-too low for coffee, but low enough to be invisible. She has been receiving messages from a dead CEO, Elias Thorne, who disappeared into his own creation eleven years ago. And she has discovered a recursive loop buried seventeen levels beneath the OmniCon Spire: a loop that doesn't just archive errors-it creates them.

To close the loop, June must submit a form that doesn't exist. The only way out is in.

The Loophole is a satirical dystopian novel for anyone who has ever been asked to confirm their identity on a form that requires your identity to begin with. Dark, funny, and uncomfortably familiar.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H32X9DZ6
• ISBN13: 9798198752726
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"