Documents from an experimental City-State
This is epistolary fiction: a story told entirely through documents. No traditional narrative prose, no omniscient narrator. Just the materials themselves.
These documents were recovered from various sources related to Bumi Bahru, an experimental city-state established in the years following the Black March pandemic. Expect journal entries, corporate memos, personal emails, technical reports, maintenance logs, encrypted communications; each one authentic to its moment.
There's no single correct path through this archive: - **Chronological readers** can follow the dates, watching systems evolve and people change month by month - **Thematic explorers** can trace specific document types: one person's journal entries, a department's reports, an infrastructure system's decline - **Mystery solvers** can hunt for connections between documents, reconstructing what happened from scattered evidence
Start anywhere. Everything connects eventually.
New documents appear regularly as transcription and verification continue. The archive grows as the excavation deepens.