The boss after the boss
Two children play a lizard beat-em-up. V.A.G.U.S. dies. The screen inverts. Lucifer Lucchese Jones appears. Then the “essay” keeps opening entirely different programs.
The jail-cell supervillain
A detainee explains how a fake Facebook profile became a chatbot army for manufacturing other people’s memories. His cellmates become the editorial board.
The pig-farm feedback loop
Boxcar returns from Las Vegas with a story about casino leftovers, hungry pigs, mechanical agitation and a logistical remainder nobody wanted.
Porkfat versus Champagne Charlie
A tiny heading opens into a whole pimp melodrama: Sour Annie, Barbary Bay, money, wine, a blade and a terrible street inheritance.
Pink fluffies from the chemical plant
A generation remembers industrial fallout as a childhood prank and dies, leaving the anecdote behind.
The child everyone practiced not seeing
A sixth-grade outlier disappears after his environment has already perfected the habit of ignoring him.
A dog walk becomes a funeral
A living dog brings together two strangers, one carrying the fresh death of another dog.
A rolling chair on the Metro
Four Los Angeles encounters: public masturbation, a street fight, a nude Gary and a man with a sharpened length of metal.
The chair eats the man
A life contracts by subtraction until flesh and upholstery become mechanically interlocked and the person survives as local legend.
Marty gets out
A prison-release story sits inside a much larger scroll, complete with 2037 Lost Eros restaurant automation and the before/after city.
The story split between two containers
Bogdan (Not Bogdan), the Thief and a lottery ticket continue across publication titles that give the reader no reason to expect a sequel.
Someone has to clean the narrative
The Fixer removes blood, cameras, footprints and odor, then begins slipping among alternate selves and discarded scripts.
For the exhaustive structural layer rather than the curated cabinet, use Internal Works & Hidden Narratives.