User Not Found
Publisher: Self Published
Published: February 2025
Language: eng
First sentence: Jack stirred a teaspoon of instant boost into a cup of tap water while his terminal booted up with a grating buzz. He missed his laptop with its dozens of colorful stickers and its D button that only worked when he held it down for just the right amount of time; any more than that and it strung fifty Ds across the screen like so many smiley faces. He’d managed to secret his smartphone in a plastic bag at the bottom of a tub of moldy hummus in the fridge when the tech collectors had come by. Not that there was anything he could do with it now except play the few offline games he’d saved on there, but it was a small consolation.
Description: Jack works for the Censorship Bureau of the Incorporated States, scanning transgressive fics for clues to the identities of the authors. It's a shit job, and it's getting to him. 
He finds himself unnaturally drawn in by transgressive a fic by UserNotFound26A6. He can't stop thinking about it and about the author he's nicknamed Oomf. He should just turn them in and be done with it, but his curiosity must be satisfied.
What he discovers at the used bookstore where the fic was posted will change him forever.
This 12,000-word dystopian short story is set in a not-too-distant future that is by turns bleak and oddly hopeful.