The Glitch was never a bug.
It was a protocol.
A near-future America where behavioral surveillance, curated news, and invisible algorithms quietly decide what you see, think, and believe. The Glitch isn’t sci-fi. It’s a warning.
What is The Glitch Protocol?
The Glitch Protocol is a connected universe of near-future stories about algorithmic power, curated reality, and the quiet war for human agency. It reads like dystopian fiction. It feels like tomorrow’s headlines.
In this world, the most dangerous weapon isn’t a missile or a virus — it’s a behavioral model. When your data, your habits, and your fears are all mapped, nudging a population becomes easier than debating it.
Each book in the series explores a different fault line: news, identity, loyalty, memory, and the thin thread of free will that remains when truth itself is programmable.
The Glitch
When a subtle malfunction ripples through a nationwide data system, it looks like a random outage. But for a handful of people on the edges of the network, it feels like something else: a crack in the story they’ve been given.
The Glitch follows ordinary people who begin to notice that their feeds, their news, and even their relationships are behaving…wrong. Not broken — calibrated. As they pull on the threads, they discover a protocol designed not to crash the system, but to harden it against dissent by rewriting what “normal” looks like.
It’s a story about trust, truth, and the cost of waking up in a world that would rather you stay asleep.
Why this story matters right now
We’re living in an age where news doesn’t just inform — it curates. Platforms don’t just connect — they pattern. And outrage isn’t an accident — it’s a business model.
The Glitch doesn’t preach. It doesn’t lecture. It asks a simple question: what if the systems we’ve built keep working exactly as designed?
“In a healthy society, truth is hard but reachable. In a curated society, truth is easy and always perfectly tailored to the person consuming it. That’s not comfort. That’s control.”
If you’ve ever felt like something is “off” in the way information flows, if you’ve ever wondered why people you love seem to live in completely different realities, this universe was written for you.