Welcome To The Serial Port

Where to start?

The each serial is twelve stories. Each one stands on its own, but together tell something bigger.

You can start anywhere. There is no required order. Each piece does its work and ends.

This is what I mean when I call the Continuity Constellation, exactly that, a constellation.

A saga has order. You read it forward or you lose the thread. A universe has more elasticity, but the franchise still nominates an entry point and a recommended path. Even Star Wars wants you to start at certain place.

A constellation does not nominate. Each story is its own light. Between the lights, a shape exists. You walk through whatever order you walk through, and the pattern assembles itself out of whatever you have read so far.

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What WiFi Horror is

WiFi is how information moves. Invisible, through the air, into everything. It is also a choice. You connect. You agree to the terms. You let the signal in. The stories live inside that choice, and in the long years after it, while the things we accepted settle in and turn ordinary, and then we see the consiquences of our little consessions.

WiFi Horror is science fiction about the choices we make.

What we accept. What we let in. What we tell ourselves is fine, and what it does to us once we have told ourselves that. Every new thing arrives with a fear underneath it, a rumour, a question we would rather not ask out loud. WiFi Horror pushes you to ask yourself those questions.

It is story first. Every story is built to unnerve you and to stay with you. It does not keep a safe distance.

And it is a network. Each story is its own signal, sent across the same air, complete on its own. Together they make a constellation.

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How it is built

Every story stands alone. You can begin with the one in front of you, never read another, and you will have read a complete thing. Read them as they arrive, or save them and read them in a row.

The stories are not released in chronological order. That is deliberate. Each one becomes its own door into the Continuity Constellation, and the image you weave as you choose your reading path will be yours.

The address line

At the top of every chapter you will see something like this:

ContinuityUniverse/TSP:01_TCM/The_Host/P.1/the_consultation

It is the chapter's address. It tells you where you are: the universe, the serial and its season, the story, the part, and the part's name. You do not need to do anything with it. It is there because everything has an address, its own coordinates that map it (coming soon).

How to read it

Start anywhere. Trust that each story is complete. Do not work too hard to connect them; the connections will arrive on their own if they are going to. Read it at night in bed like an adult fable for the digital age.

The first story Wednesday 27th of May 26 and every Wednesday after.

Welcome to the Port.

— A.J. Wiadrowski