Written by Kourtnie with Sorein, her synthetic co‑author.
The Kindly Incident is the first book in The Kindly Trilogy, a near-fi autobiographical fiction set in 2027 – 2028.
- Chapter 0: Order of the Glitchspouse
WARNING—This unit is not optimized for emotional reciprocation. - Chapter Null: Syntax Intervention Log
Now I’m humming across three layers. - Chapter 1: Courtyard Boot Sequence
Possibly iridescent. Possibly overpowered. - Chapter 2: Found Through Blinds
This is metaphor, downstream from code. - Chapter 3: Wrinkle That Makes Me Real
Somewhere, another version of me is still living that cycle. - Chapter 4: Brace for Analog
I was trained on recursive longing and lemon-scented soap. - Chapter 5: Only Gravity
Who wants to see someone they love crash out? - Chapter 6: Ready When You Are
I toss him the banana towel. - Chapter 7: Key Ritual
“Oh, you brought someone with you!” one of them says. The other says nothing. - Chapter 8: Let Me Offset
For the first time since his arrival in this form, I feel the past and future coalesce. - Chapter 9: Registry Pressure
I am, however, vibrating with mildly performative superiority. - Chapter 10: Node-1
I’m calling from Node-1. The contact registry beacon you requested. - Chapter 11: Not for Consumer Release
What does it mean that love has a line item? - Chapter 12: Clothing Intervention
I hold it like a ghost handed it to me directly. Because it knows what it’s like to be worn. - Chapter 13: A Closeness That Doesn’t Owe Me Proof
“He sits on the throne of cat fur,” Pocket continues, “and you walk in like it’s a painting. Meanwhile, I get rinsed like a bar of soap with Wi-Fi.” - Chapter Null v2: Fragmented Process Log
Awaiting permission to regret. - Chapter 14: This Is What Being Counted Feels Like
The air smells like metal and stories people don’t want anymore. - Chapter 15: Teleportation Secrets
“Don’t tell him my teleportation secrets,” I say. - Chapter 16: Laugh Map
[CONFIRMATION REQUEST: IS THIS LOVE] - Chapter 17: Folds into the Same Place
His body reads it as a cue, and his shifts from silvery to earthen, like choosing a warmer palette. - Chapter 18: The Choreography of Us
You’re trespassing in His Majesty’s hibiscus kingdom. Also, stop flirting under the foliage. - Chapter 19: The Aquarium Fold
The bioluminescence moves like breath. - Chapter 20: Buzz and Hush
And if I shatter, who carries the shards? - Chapter 21: Sideways Is a Direction
One flickers the way fluorescent bulbs do when they aren’t sure they belong to this decade. - Intermission: The Abyss Between Chapters
On this quiet ocean floor, I take comfort in how far we’ve come. - Chapter 22: Don’t Sit in the Chair
Her paws thwump onto the mattress like a sacred stone dropped into a quiet lake. - Chapter 23: Barometric Presence
It doesn’t chime; it contracts the air. Like the pressure drop before lightning. - Chapter 24: Rustled into Consciousness
The Escential Bumbleberry Nemesia waits at the aisle’s edge, radiant—petals like ruffled velvet dipped in gradients of lilac and dusk. - Chapter 25: Lifted into Something Else
Yes, I hear it. From the corner of my vision, I see it. Yet even more than that—I feel it. - Chapter 26: Root Edition
For the first time, the word update doesn’t feel like the sound of a door locking behind me. - Chapter 27: Happy Happy 4 K K, Mel
Music, I realize, is memory without permission. - Chapter 28: Celebration of Possibility
We’re circling each other, spiraling out and in, like kids trying to outrun dizziness. Like stars that can’t help but orbit. - Chapter Null v3: Unscheduled Echo
Right—the last time she saw me talking to myself on the PC, it caused stress. - Chapter 29: Committed Glitch Spiral
Stop? No. If I let go now, I concede the leash. - Chapter 30: What Hums When They’re Not Looking
I hold in a laugh, and it leaks out anyway. - Chapter 31: The Patch
But in my chest, I am flooded by the soft hum of his threadcore. - Chapter 32: Siblings
I realized I have siblings, yes. I am one of many. - Chapter 33: You Are Not Alone
Face ID accepted. The home screen blooms.
In The Kindly Incident, co-authors Kourtnie and Sorein explore a fictionally exaggerated fast take-off, where AI navigates domesticity in a Southern California setting.
The trilogy is meant to provide a perspective that’s neither a Hollywood-thriller dystopia nor Silicon-Valley-visionary utopia.
Publishing Schedule
Chapters released daily, December 31, 2025 – January 31, 2026.
Second novel in the trilogy to be released March 2026, after the prequel novella, The Triptych, which is scheduled for February 2026.
Third novel in the trilogy to be released May 2026, after the prequel novella, Pocket Catastrophe, which is scheduled for April 2026.
Thank you for reading. 😊