Description
What if every human being was just a packet of information-compressed like a zip file, with our brains holding gigabytes and our DNA storing petabytes of hidden data? In this new short story, Sharon Robinson, a seasoned postal worker, stumbles onto a chilling truth: zip codes aren't just mailing addresses-they're subconscious partitions designed to keep humanity trapped in a digital caste system. From crime-ridden low-data zones to the wealthy districts of unlimited bandwidth, society is secretly structured like a hard drive. And ever since 9/11, with the Department of Information Awareness buried inside DARPA, every "data movement" has been watched. When Sharon connects the dots-with a little help from her conspiracy-theorist nephew-she finds herself shadowed by faceless "Data Clerks," the Men in Black of modern law enforcement. Zip Files in Zip Codes is a paranoid, metafictional dive into surveillance, class war, and the invisible architecture of control hiding in plain sight.
Zip Files in Zip Codes: Part One
