Rob MacWolf

Set in Madison Scott-Clary’s Post-Self world, where a man named Dante uploads himself to the System to start over.

Today’s story is “Genre Clade”

by Domus Vocis, one story in “Clade: A Post-Self Anthology” edited by Madison Scott-Clary. Domus spends his free time listening to vaporwave music while writing/reading furry fiction, and published his debut novel, “The Adventures of Peter Gray” in 2018. You can find more of his stories on Patreon, which includes his ongoing furry dystopian story series, “Maverick Hotel”. And be sure to read the Post-Self Cycle by Madison Scott-Clary.

Also “post-self” sounds like “posting (a picture of) yourself” which just sounds like a selfie, and that makes us think there could be a universe where a pic of yourself that you post is a post-self and instead we’re reading the Selfie Cycle

I mean, I guess describing forking as "Posting Self" wouldn't necessarily be WRONG, would it?

Clade (n) – /kleɪd/ – post-self theory
A group of individuals patterned off a single root consciousness, formed through branching expansion of the forking of its constituent members.
See also: cladistics, cocladist, up-/down-/cross-tree instance, forking, post-self theory.
— The System Central Library Encyclopedia

To split oneself among however many individuals, to let the mind drift and diverge, to feel the world from points of view not your own, and then let those memories crash down into you…well, it inspires a feeling best described as ‘heady’, to say the least.

Now available for purchase and free to read online!

• "Sufficiently Advanced" by Rob MacWolf
• "Genre Clade" by Nathan "Domus Vocis" Hopp
• "Après un rêve" by Madison Scott-Clary
• "Support Group for Anomalies in Forking" by Michael Miele
• "Cowboy" by Alexandria Christina Leal
• "True Love Lies Within and Without" by Thomas "Faux" Steele
• "The Big O" by Evan Drake
• "She Who Haunts the Storm" by JS Hawthorne
• "Earthbound" by Kergiby
• "Cascade Failure" by Joel Kreissman

Content Warnings: "Après un rêve" contains surgery and death; "Support Group for Anomalies in Forking" contains alcohol abuse, body horror, a car accident and injuries, and medical debt; "Cowboy" contains manipulation, complex PTSD, emotional flashbacks, a severe panic attack, and mentions parental death; "She Who Haunts the Storm" contains depression, self-hate, self(?)-harm, coercion, intimidation, and suicidal ideation; "Earthbound" contains death and depression.

There's an anthology I'm in, and you are capable of getting it!