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Dystopian fast fiction about the future they're building — and field notes on getting free of it. Money. Speech. Borders.

GENRE
Fast fiction
DISPATCHES
Free, via Substack
ORIGIN
19.3°N 81.3°W

CITIZEN IDUNREGISTERED

Three exits

EXIT_01

Money

Sound money. Owning your time. Keeping what you earn.

EXIT_02

Speech

Saying what you think — before it becomes an offence.

EXIT_03

Borders

Choosing where you live. Leaving when you have to.

A giant eye in the sky watches over tower blocks as a line of people walk a pier out into a red sea
FIG. 02 — THE EXIT

Short stories from a future that's closer than it looks. A state that takes four-fifths of what you earn. Money that reports where you spend it. A government that decides when it ends.

FILE / SPEECHREAD ↗

Wrongthink

Fired. Bank account frozen. Banned from every app. One wrong thought was all it took.

FILE / SURVEILLANCEREAD ↗

Constant Surveillance

The red eye in the corner never blinks. It's measuring everything you do.

FILE / CONTROLREAD ↗

Modern Slave

They say they've abolished slavery. The narrator isn't so sure.

Rules for the
ungovernable

Not approved for distribution

  1. § 01

    Hold money they can't print.

  2. § 02

    Say the thing. Then say it again.

  3. § 03

    Keep a passport and a plan.

  4. § 04

    Read fiction. It's where the truth hides.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Contraband

Two collections. eBook only.
Delivered instantly. No paper trail.
Possession discouraged by the authorities.

Cover of Short Stories From The End Of The World

FILE 01 · eBOOK

Short Stories From The End Of The World

The first collection. Fast fiction from the edge of collapse.

Download the eBook→
Cover of Life in the People's Republic of Victoria

FILE 02 · eBOOK

Life in the People's Republic of Victoria

The second collection. Dystopian stories from a not-so-distant future, with a foreword by Alex James.

Download the eBook→

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A man in a suit with a wired-up screen for a head, unplugging himself
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04 / Subject file

John Goddard

ALIAS
@nonestlex
STATUS
Exited Australia
LOCATION
Cayman Islands
ACTIVITY
Fast fiction, two collections

I write fast fiction: short dystopian stories about futures that feel a little too close. I left Australia for the Cayman Islands, and these days I'm writing about the search for freedom — of money, of speech, and of where you choose to live.

Most of it happens on X. Follow @nonestlex ↗