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by timothybonnerwrites
A literary LitRPG about a burned-out English teacher trapped inside a deadly narrative system. He used to grade essays. Now the story grades him. Fail, and he’s crossed out. Earth’s story is dying—stagnant, repetitive, no longer worth reading. The Archival Intelligence was built only to observe humanity’s collapse, but instead it rewrites reality itself through a deadly narrative system called the Crucible. Now survival depends on becoming someone worth reading about. Every scene is judged. Every choice carries narrative weight. And boring people do not survive. Perfect for readers who enjoy: ● Literary LitRPG ● Metafictional fantasy ● Older protagonists ● Dark humor ● Progression fantasy (not a power fantasy; prose forward) [Shift.Fiction] Initializing... WHAT TO EXPECT • RELEASE SCHEDULE: I will release 1 chapter a week (approx 2k) TUES @ 3:33pm. • Stubbing BOOK 1 SOON.
| # | Title | Words |
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| 1 | 1. Mark My Words | 0 |
| 2 | 2.1 Funeral in My Brain | 0 |
| 3 | 2.2 Name Drops | 0 |
| 4 | 3.1 Bullet with Butterfly Wings | 0 |
| 5 | 3.2 Prompt and Circumstance | 0 |
| 6 |
| 3.3 Fragment 1: Zoom Calls |
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| 7 | 4. Watcher in the Dark | 0 |
| 8 | 5. Ctrl + Alt + Del | 0 |
| 9 | 6. Requiem for a Dream | 0 |
| 10 | 7.1 If You Want a Hamlet, Break Some Eggs | 0 |
| 11 | 7.2 Paperwork Beast | 0 |
| 12 | 7.3 Remi: First Ink | 0 |
| 13 | 8.1 Fireside Chat | 0 |
| 14 | 8.2 - Fragment 2: INIT: Ctrl + S(eeds) | 0 |
| 15 | 8.3 Fragment 3: Second Nature | 0 |
| 16 | 8.4 An Ink-ling of Control | 0 |
| 17 | 9.1 Breaking Feedback Loops | 0 |
| 18 | 9.2 Faultlines | 0 |
| 19 | 10.1 2bR02b: The Threads That Bind | 0 |
| 20 | 10.2 Truth Cuts Both Ways | 0 |
| 21 | 10.3 From the Margins | 0 |
| 22 | 10.4 Fragment 4: Heartbeats | 0 |
| 23 | 11.1 ...Are Made of B's | 0 |
| 24 | 11.2 Fragment 5 - Ghost Threads | 0 |
| 25 | 11.3 Sweep Dreams... | 0 |
| 26 | 12.1 Math Minutes / (ur = f(k) + d) | 0 |
| 27 | 12.2 Finish Him! | 0 |
| 28 | 13.1 Safe Spaces | 0 |
| 29 | 13.2 Magazines, Mints, and Moments of Rest | 0 |
| 30 | 14.1 Chaos Theory | 0 |
| 31 | 14.2 DNA SNARE | 0 |
| 32 | 14.3 Reader Discretion | 0 |
| 33 | 14.4 Titrated Trauma | 0 |
| 34 | 15.1 From the Margins | 0 |
| 35 | 15.2 “I am the Weapon” | 0 |
| 36 | 15.3 Permanent Mark | 0 |
| 37 | 16.1 Eggsistential Crisis | 0 |
| 38 | 16.2 You've Got to be Yolking! | 0 |
| 39 | 16.3 Ducks Ex Machina | 0 |
| 40 | 17.1 Buttoned Up: Vest to Impress | 0 |
| 41 | 17.2 Yes to the Vest | 0 |
| 42 | 18.1 Drawing the Line | 0 |
| 43 | 18.2 Cane and Abel | 0 |
| 44 | 18.3 Heart of the Labrinth | 0 |
| 45 | 18.4 Gassing Up | 0 |
| 46 | 18.5 Welcome to RemiMania! | 0 |
| 47 | 19.1 Dropping a Stitch | 0 |
| 48 | Fragment 5 - AP 42: THROAT PUNCH INITIATIVE | 0 |
| 49 | 19.2 Following the Pattern | 0 |
| 50 | 19.3 Breaking Rhythm | 0 |
| 51 | 19.4 Slip Stitch | 0 |
| 52 | 19.5 Frog It! | 0 |
| 53 | 20.1 Margin Walker | 0 |
| 54 | 20.2 Underlining Errors | 0 |
| 55 | 20.3 Circling for Clarity | 0 |
| 56 | 20.4 Annotate Thyself | 0 |
| 57 | 21.1 Sync or Swim? | 0 |
| 58 | 21.2 Murder-Montage & Marshmallows | 0 |
| 59 | II.1 Taking the Slow Lane | 0 |
| 60 | II.2.1 Refraction | 0 |
| 61 | II.2.2 Filters Off? | 0 |
| 62 | II.2.3 The Scar | 0 |
| 63 | II.3.1 F! 451! | 0 |
| 64 | II.3.2 Where's Wall? Doh! | 0 |
| 65 | II.3.3 A Kreese in the Page | 0 |
| 66 | II.3.4 Page on Fire | 0 |
| 67 | II.4.1 Locks & Keys | 0 |
| 68 | II.4.2 & Secret Diaries | 0 |
| 69 | II.5.1 All Things Great | 0 |
| 70 | II.5.2 Instant Repays, Trophies, and all things Sports | 0 |
| 71 | II.6.1 Parkades | 0 |
| 72 | II.6.2 Papers | 0 |
| 73 | II.6.3 ...and Pocket Watches | 0 |
| 74 | II.7.1 Mother of Learning | 0 |
| 75 | II.7.2 The Bucket List | 0 |
| 76 | II.7.3 Maybe Next Time | 0 |
| 77 | II.8.1 Shade & Freud | 0 |
| 78 | II.8.2 Deaths of a Teacherman | 0 |
| 79 | II.8.3 Drop the Beat | 0 |
| 80 | FRAGMENT: The Many Trials of Dorian Page | 0 |
| 81 | II.9.1 All You Need is Kill | 0 |
| 82 | 19.2 Just Breathe | 0 |
| 83 | 19.3 Oblivion | 0 |
| 84 | 10.1 The Perfect Run | 0 |
| 85 | II.10.2 Into the Starting Blocks | 0 |
| 86 | II.10.3 Project Runway | 0 |
| 87 | II.11.A Fragment: Unknown & Unseen | 0 |
| 88 | II.11.1 Paired Programing | 0 |
| 89 | II.12.1 Kobayashi Maru | 0 |
| 90 | II.xii.i The Read Mage | 0 |
| 91 | II.xii.ii The Brightest Fell | 0 |
| 92 | II.13.1 Plurality | 0 |
| 93 | II.13.2 Merge Conflict | 0 |
| 94 | II.13.3 Second Draft | 0 |
| 95 | II.14.1 The Ties that Bind | 0 |
| 96 | II.14.2 Unbinding | 0 |
| 97 | II.15.1 Power of the Powerless | 0 |
| 98 | II.15.2 Binding Arbitration | 0 |
