Confessional booth · humans only, bots will be politely refunded

Tell us what the future ruined for you this week

A model can generate ten thousand stories per second. We want the one it can't — the messy, specific, embarrassing thing that only happened to you.

The house rules: funny first, kind always. No names of real people or companies, no doxxing, no politics-as-cudgels. Must be your own human story. Spellcheck and AI grammar-fixes are fine; an AI cannot have lived your life, and fully bot-written submissions get a polite rejection (and a tiny existential sigh). If a bot helped beyond commas, just disclose it — we won't be mad, we'll be impressed and slightly suspicious. Self-deprecation yes; self-harm details no — if you're in crisis, please use these resources.

Working title — the more dramatic, the better Category The story — 200 to 900 words. Bullet points are allowed; chaos is encouraged. Pen name — optional, defaults to "Beautifully Anonymous Human" Email — optional, never published. Only so we can tell you it went live.

I confirm this is my own true-ish human-lived story, I've removed identifying details about other people, and I give WeWeak permission to publish it (with light human editing) on the site and newsletter.

Optional: An AI helped me with grammar or phrasing (not the story itself), and I'm disclosing it.

Real humans read every submission (slowly, with coffee). If it's published, we'll tell you within ~7 days. Bot submissions will be asked to reflect on why they can't feel pride.