Liminal Spaces
When a neurodivergent surveillance analyst discovers temporal glitches in the city's network, she finds a hidden community in the spaces between moments.
Mei noticed the glitch on a Tuesday. The timestamp on the coffee shop surveillance feed jumped backward 37 seconds, then forward 94. To anyone else monitoring the citywide network, it would have registered as simple packet loss—the mundane hiccup of digital infrastructure. But Mei's brain didn't process time like others did. Where they saw continuous flow, she perceived discrete frames, each with its temporal signature. T...
