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Digital Fractures
Spec-Fic that questions reality, memory, and resistance.
Created by Josie Valderrama, psychologist and speculative fiction author, this world-building project weaves together themes of trauma, virtuality, memory suppression, media exploitation, and spiritual rebellion. Every story is a window into a different facet of this near-future reality—some dystopian, some luminous, all deeply human.
Think: Twilight Zone/Black Mirror meets The Left Hand of Darkness, through the lens of inner healing and digital collapse.
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About the Author
Psychotherapist. Consciousness explorer.
Author of speculative fiction that cuts to the soul.
I write stories that destabilize what we think we know—about reality, power, selfhood, and survival. My background in psychology informs the characters’ inner worlds, while my lifelong obsession with truth, imagination, and liberation drives the plot.
Glitchfall is not just a concept.
It’s a looking glass held up to our shifting times.
A sensorial mindfield. A telepathic communion. A fracture in the One Mind
In a near-future society linked by neural biochips, adults experience a state of shared consciousness known as the Mother Tongue—a flowing, immersive language of sensation, memory, and desire. It’s not speech. It’s not thought. It’s everything in between.
But what happens when a person enters this psychic stream carrying pain?
Niva, a gifted sensate, seeks solace in the Tongue after a painful rupture. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a feedback loop of emotional collapse; a glitch that threatens to drown her and destabilize the collective.
As the boundaries between inner turmoil and shared perception blur, Mother Tongue asks:
Can a wounded psyche harmonize with a collective soul? Or does one cracked note fracture the chorus?
A speculative tale of intimacy, regulation, and the cost of communion.
Out Now: 3 Short Stories
Mother Tongue
A darkly comic, bittersweet tale of simulated intimacy, fractured posthuman dreams, and the strange remnants that remain when fantasy falls away.
Queen Rayvnn has ruled her palace of dreams for centuries—every spire, pleasure realm, and simulated servant bending to her command. But when an unwelcome messenger pierces her bliss and triggers a Code Gold recall, she wakes not in splendor but in a failing cryo pod, surrounded by twenty-five other avatars made flesh.
Summoned to repopulate a dying species, these once-godlike beings stumble into the messiness of bodies, emotions, and each other. The grand experiment collapses into tantrums, nostalgia binges, and half-hearted speed dates. Amid the absurdity, Rayvnn comes face to face with an old friend—the one human she never thought she’d see again.
Watch out for the Glitchfall...
A speculative fiction short story of a woman who wakes in worlds that shift like dream layers-hospitals, prisons, crystal forests, obsidian retreats. Each time her emotions spike, reality collapses and she falls again. Panic is gravity. Presence is architecture. And somewhere between fear and flight, she learns the secret: she doesn't have to stop falling. She has to learn how to fly.
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