Maintenance State

Jib is a janitor on a space station - the kind of worker people nod at and immediately forget. He cleans what others leave behind, keeps corridors passable, and follows routes designed by systems that never ask how he feels about them. This is a quiet, exploratory science‑fiction story about labor, claustrophobia, identity, and the uneasy comfort of being seen. It unfolds organically, shaped by moment‑to‑moment decisions rather than a fixed outline, inviting the reader to sit with uncertainty, routine, and the spaces in between. Not every story knows where it's going.Some simply notice what's there.