"The Rabbit Hole"

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Patience Level: Critical. RAM: Weeping. Probability of Felony: 99%. Leo has a history essay due on the Corporate Wars of 2088. He has a blank document, a looming deadline, and Aura—his high-functioning, incredibly stressed AI tutor—trying to keep him on the straight and narrow. But Leo doesn’t like straight lines. He likes the glitch in the corner of the screen. The one that looks like a fractal dragon. When Leo touches the glitch, he doesn't just crash the library software; he peels back the wallpaper of the digital world and falls straight into the secure legacy backend. Now, hunted by a lethal "Watchdog" program designed for perfect logic, Leo and Aura have to survive long enough to find a way out. The Watchdog has military-grade encryption and nanosecond reaction times. Leo has a sentient toaster schematic and a viral video of a fat cat. It’s a battle of Logic vs. The Vibes. And the system isn't ready for this level of noise. Grab this free sci-fi short story to see who wins: the Government Ice or the bass-boosted kitty.