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The Loophole: A Satirical Dystopian Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The system wasn't broken. It was working exactly as designed.
Milo Vane is an Absurdity Arbitrageur. He finds contradictions in the Global Compliance Architecture (GCA)-an all-powerful bureaucracy that tracks every citizen's Fulfillment Score-and sells them back to the people trapped inside. Then a message arrives from three seconds in the future: The intern knows something. Keep her talking.
The intern is June Bellow. Her score is 61.7-too low for coffee, but low enough to be invisible. She has been receiving messages from a dead CEO, Elias Thorne, who disappeared into his own creation eleven years ago. And she has discovered a recursive loop buried seventeen levels beneath the OmniCon Spire: a loop that doesn't just archive errors-it creates them.
To close the loop, June must submit a form that doesn't exist. The only way out is in.
The Loophole is a satirical dystopian novel for anyone who has ever been asked to confirm their identity on a form that requires your identity to begin with. Dark, funny, and uncomfortably familiar.
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