Off-Grid Protocols
A serialized fiction series about survival, technology, and finding signal in the noise.
New episodes weekly · Read in order below
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 001 — First Contact
OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS — A weekly short story series about resilience, technology, and a sarcastic AI beaver. Set in a near-future where tech infrastructure is failing, it follows a rural tech consultant and his self-hosted AI assistant as they navigate cascading…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 002 — Offline
OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS — A weekly short story series about resilience, technology, and a sarcastic AI beaver. Set in a near-future where tech infrastructure is failing, it follows a rural tech consultant and his self-hosted AI assistant as they navigate cascading…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 003 — Noise in the Signal
OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS — A weekly short story series about resilience, technology, and a sarcastic AI beaver. Set in a near-future where tech infrastructure is failing, it follows a rural tech consultant and his self-hosted AI assistant as they navigate cascading…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 004 — Protocol
OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS is a weekly science fiction serial about what happens when civilization’s infrastructure fails — and the resourceful people who keep the networks running anyway. New to the series? Start with Episode 001. Each episode stands alone, but they…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 005 — Downstream
Off-Grid Protocols is a weekly short story serial following Dakota Rivers, his AI assistant Bucky, and their found family as they navigate infrastructure collapse, emergent AI, and the question: what happens when the systems we built to connect us start…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 006 — Ghost in the Mesh
OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS is a weekly short story serial about what happens when civilization’s tech infrastructure starts mysteriously failing — and a rural network engineer becomes humanity’s unexpected last line of defense. Estimated reading time: 8-10 minutes The first ghost appeared…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Upstream
The team travels to Colorado to trace the Cascade to its source — a quantum computing facility that might hold answers about what really happened.
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 008 — Synchronicity
Off-Grid Protocols is a weekly sci-fi serial about rural resilience, decentralized networks, and the people stubborn enough to keep things running when the world gets weird. Estimated read time: 13 minutes Dakota’s coffee maker died at 6:13 on a Monday…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 009 — Handshake
Off-Grid Protocols is a weekly short story serial about rural resilience, decentralized tech, and the weird future arriving through old antennas and improvised networks. Estimated read time: 10 minutes. Dakota put off first contact for most of the day, which…
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OFF-GRID PROTOCOLS: Episode 010 — Common Ground
Off-Grid Protocols is a weekly short-story serial about rural resilience, decentralized tech, and the weird future creeping in through the fence line. Estimated read time: 9 minutes Dakota learned, by painful repetition, that there were only two ways a day…