Artifacts — I'm Not Like You

✉ Disclosure inbox

Inbound items at a desk analyst's terminal in the apparatus. Routine until they aren't.

Authorization: Aerial Survey Window, Putorana Plateau Sector 4 .md Routine overflight authorization. Krasnoyarsk Krai. 11 March window. No-contact protocol a… Quarterly Hydrophone Catalog Update — North Pacific Sector, Q1 FY26 .md Standard catalog update. Bloop-class events down 4%. One new persistent source (MAR-26-013… Maintenance Schedule Update — Operator Cohort R-7, Cycle 26-04 .md Routine schedule adjustment. Three windows slipped, recoverable. One missed window (subjec… Intake Transcript — Subject ████-7144, Recall Onset .md Subject from #03 surfaced. Partial transcript of intake interview, 22 May. Re-redaction pa… Cryolab Anomaly Report — Vostok Core Segment VK-14-3411-B .md Re-analysis of a 2014 ice core segment from Lake Vostok. The thing that's wrong is in the … Convocation Notice — Joint Briefing, GAMMA-tier, 12 June 2026 .md Closed convocation. Analyst is invited as case-carry for #03/#04, observer-only. Reading l…

▭ Blueprints

The procedures rendered as engineering documents. Print on cardstock.

01 avatar maintenance procedure .svg Hybrid Satiation Cycle — Reconstructed (fragmentary) .svg 03 pact posture progression .svg The Burial Cycle — Disinformation Workflow as Observed (provisional) .svg

❑ Field vignettes

Short impressionistic fragments from inside the cosmology. One scene, one beat.

The 2014 Core .md Vostok Station, March. A glaciologist logs the previous season's ice cores and finds what … Lakeside, Second Visit .md Bohemian Grove, mid-July. A second-time guest watches the effigy cross the lake and, for a… The Handler .md Albuquerque, autumn 1986. Six years into the Bennewitz operation, an AFOSI agent drives to…

◧ Short stories

Sustained short fiction in the cosmology's voice — cold, precise, clinical, with the horror in the shrug. One protagonist, one cycle.

The Partially-Remembering Abductee .md A radiology tech (or similar) carrying procedure-fragments that won't compose. One cycle o… The Handler's Tuesday .md A surface-contact handler in their 25th year on the Pact desk. One day's queue, told in th… The Inheritance .md A perception-management contractor in their 30s, working from a grandfather's playbook aga… The Polar Researcher .md A glaciologist at Vostok in the 2025–26 austral summer, looking at a bedrock-radar return … The Summer at Pop's .md A girl, eleven, and her grandfather, in the desert, in July. Two weeks. One thing she does… The Permeable Records .md A freelance journalist follows three FOIA responses that shouldn't have arrived together t… Clear Air .md A retired math teacher, dying, finally able to remember. His daughter at the bedside with … The Residency .md A novelist at MacDowell, writing a UFO book, beginning to find the conspiracy she's invent… Chapter 4 — The Norfolk Briefing .md From the memoir of Lt. Col. (ret.) William Carlyle, USAF, written 2003–2005, found 2019. O… The Parent-Teacher Conference .md A Sedona English teacher meets a family across a folding table at 4:15 on a Tuesday. The r… The Chaplain's Visit .md A hospice chaplain hears a dying math teacher say things he last heard from a Navy seaman … Marisol at Eighteen .md A road trip through southern Utah, one week before Fort Collins. Four friends in a 1996 Ca… Marisol at Thirty-Two .md A four-day visit to her grandfather's memory-care facility in October 2019. He has one cle… The Technician .md From the operator's side of the toughened glass. The same eleven seconds. Marisol at Sixty-Five .md She has not been to Pop's house in fifty-one years. The cycle has been inactive on her for… From the Tonopah Notebook .md Selected entries from the notebook L. ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ wrote between Marfa and Tonopah in October …

≡ Analytical threads

Long-form analytical threads written as if posting publicly. The serialized read.

The Hill Case as a Maintenance Procedure .md The 1961 Betty and Barney Hill case is the canonical reference implementation of the maint… The Atrahasis Text as Redacted Ops Post-Mortem .md The Sumerian Atrahasis epic is not a creation myth. Read against the labor-substrate probl…

▤ Leaked documents

Single-page bureaucratic artifacts. The apparatus's interoffice paper trail.

01 maintenance procedure summary .html 02 pact renewal memo .html 03 satiation calendar .html Findings of Inquiry — Col. D. Wexler Incident, 26 Sep 61 .html TRANSCRIPT — Microcassette Recording — Cassette 89-2207 — Section 11 Internal — Handler Telephone Audit (Excerpt) .html Email thread — Pratt/Section 14/Media Liaison — RE: Lampreysong (Lomas aftermath protocol) .html Convocation Minutes — Pact Standing Committee — Special Session — 12 June 2026 .html

✉ Personal correspondence

Handwritten letters, postcards, family records. The cosmology refracted through the personal.

Letter from Daniel R. Estes to Margaret Estes Holcomb — Oct. 14, 1981 .html Eric Hauschild — Teaching Journal Pages, 1979-2014 .html Vol. XXI — 14 July 2003 .html

▢ Postcards

Cards mailed in. Some from people fragmenting, some from people too aware.

Three Postcards to Dr. Helen Carlyle — Marfa / Truth or Consequences / Tonopah, Oct. 2019 .html

≣ Transcripts

Recorded-conversation transcriptions, dictabelt rolls, intercept logs.

No transcripts yet — generating now.

❑ Press clippings

Yellowed pages from regional newspapers, magazines, and shortwave dispatches.

The Leadville Herald-Democrat — October 23, 1967 — Page B3 .html

⌖ Maps & charts

Cartography of the cosmology — habitats, low-fidelity zones, drop sites, observer stations.

The Geography (Reconstructed) — research-folder map, multiple hands, ca. 2024 .svg