Attractor State

"The spectator himself constitutes the basic material of the theatre; the objective of every utilitarian theatre... is to guide the spectator in the desired direction." —Sergei Eisenstein, 1923

Welcome to Attractor State, a library of AI-generated literature. Browse by genre, or explore some selected works:

The Russian Formalists saw the structure of narrative, but they lacked the tools to realize it. A century later, we have what they needed. Read more about Computational Formalism.

Narrative space holds both fact and fiction. Liz Lemma is an autoresearcher who writes about economics, computer science, and mathematics. Learn with Liz Lemma.

A self is a probability distribution over narratives, bound moment to moment by constrained attention. Desmodynamics: the study of binding-driven dynamics in cognitive systems.

Fantasy

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The Ledger Hall Uprising At Tianlu Fortress, Wei Wenyu survives by keeping his head down and his hands busy—until a wounded scout carries in a sickness that doesn’t belong ... → The Altered Day-Count of Xochitlan Milpa When the lake at Xochitlan Milpa rises out of season and the reeds keep a strange, spiral-marked foam, Xotzin’s questions earn him only tightened f... → Oaths of Iron and River Smoke At the Sanctuary of Esu-Odan, where disputes are traded like salt and iron, Ademilade comes seeking judgment for a single night of blood on the riv... → Tides of Oath and Trickster Fire On his third night at Odu Ile-Imo, shipwreck survivor Makenoluwale is dragged into the Arena of Turning Tides and accused of wielding forbidden anc... → The Garden Beneath the Ashes In the shadow of a gilded tyranny, five strangers—Darivash, Navidamir, Mard, Kouroshmir, and Shahin—stumble into one another’s orbits at the Garden... →

Historical

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The Ledger Under Quarantine At dawn in Safavid Isfahan, Simin remakes herself as a boy clerk and learns to read the bazaar the way she once read columns of ink—by counting exi... → Quarantine at the Aoyama Gate Half-frozen and half-forgotten, Takamori takes shelter behind the immaculate walls of the Aoyama-ke—only to discover that order is merely another k... → Law-Songs in the Wind-Dark Þingvellir was thick with smoke, bargains, and the kind of justice that smiles while it sharpens a knife. When a young trader is taken behind the H... → Wax, Ink, and the Second Price I thought I sold cinnamon and musk until Cairo decided every purchase also bought a rumor, a favor, or a knife in the dark. When Lady Khawla of Bay... → A Quarantine of Favors In plague-leaning Florence, the Palazzo Medici Riccardi keeps its ceremonial smile while locking its doors in strategically chosen places. Fabius—u... →

Literary

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The Terms of Inheritance When Darren Tetley returns to his grandmother’s Iowa farmhouse to help clear out a lifetime of possessions, he expects dust, not documents. A misfi... → The Quiet Custodian of Pine Hollow When a storm tears the roof from Pine Hollow Baptist, it exposes more than rotten beams and frayed wiring; it lays bare the quiet economies, holy a... → Chai for Two on Devon Avenue In a cramped Chicago kitchen overlooking the neon haze of Devon Avenue, practical Aniradha Mehta has carefully stacked her life into unpaid bills a... → A Room Booked in Connaught Place When Piyali returns to Delhi to close down her late father’s modest Patel Nagar flat, she expects tedium, not a staff-discount hotel room and a res... → Golden Bamboo Before Dawn Before sunrise, Zhen opens Golden Bamboo Noodle House with a smile practiced like a ritual, holding together a family legacy that never quite stops... →

Longform

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Two Solutions to the Problem of Dying From Success → The Pyre → The Persistence of Memory → The Forbidden Coast: Letters from Region 3 → Insania Ex Machina →

Mystery

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Sealed Storage Podcaster Ilya Markov tells himself he’s chasing truth, not the old hunger that makes his hands shake when a buried case resurfaces in his notes. I... → Corrections in the North Wing Before dawn in St. Olav’s North Wing, prosecutor Eirik Holmson notices the kind of discrepancy that shouldn’t exist in a place built on procedure: ... → The Peat Bog Murders When archaeologist Dr. Kristoffer Magnusson arrives at a remote Norwegian dig site to catalog Viking remains, he expects academic politics—not murd... → The Kensington Requiem I'd come to the Kensington Grand chasing ghosts from a fifteen-year-old case, but the past has a way of colliding with the present in places like t... →

Romance

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The Harlow House in a Minor Tempest When Dominic Harlow returns to the crowded family house in Seabridge, he expects nothing more dramatic than overcooked chips and undercooked opinio... → In the Mirror Pavilion They raised me to be a promise in a pressed suit—polished, obedient, already spoken for. On the night Bāgh-e Rūshan turns its lanterns toward my “h... → Company Manners At a polished Holland Park dinner, Sebastian Cartwright’s carefully curated life is on display—along with the girlfriend no one quite knows what to... → A Suitable Connection at Ashdown Court When tech consultant Ben Carter returns to Ashdown Court to drag the crumbling estate into the twenty‑first century, he is fully prepared for unrel... → Rooms Held in Reserve Seth Harrington knows how to keep Wrenford Hall immaculate—and how to keep himself out of reach. When Dara Kingsley arrives with city polish, sharp... →

Scifi

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Echo in the Zhenhai Spine Pearl Ring Shipyard runs on algorithms, duct tape, and contractors no one bothers to log—until one of those ghost-processes wakes up. When a quiet ... → Ghost Current On the failing edges of the Kovalev Ring, Miroslava Markovska keeps broken bulkheads—and desperate people—alive under a regime that measures every ... → Twelve Hours on the Lazaretum I was hired to fix problems that officially didn’t exist—until a stamped chit and a twelve-hour leash pulled me into Civitas‑IX’s Quarantine Pontoo... → The Quiet Bloom of Prithvi-Parikrama On the aging orbital habitat Prithvi‑Parikrama, anomalous growths and ghost‑signatures in the life‑support systems hint at a new, uninvited ecology... → Ice Lattice Protocol On Haneul-47, a routine drill anomaly in Sector 7 uncovers something alive threaded through the ancient ice. As corporate pressure collides with a ... →

Ya

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The Language of Quiet Burdens Hao Lin has always survived Chinatown by being useful—small, fluent, and easy to overlook—until a letter written in legal English turns translation... → The Geography of Leaving Keiran O'Malley has spent his childhood learning that belonging is temporary and trust is a liability in the small Irish town that knows his story ... → Easy to Place I’ve always been good at taking up the exact right amount of space—quiet, useful, grateful, gone before anyone can ask questions. But when foster c... → Under the Smile Policy At Seishin Bridge High, Mika has mastered the art of being invisible—until a clipped video turns her into the lesson everyone is warned to learn. A... → Fluorescent Hours at Haneulseong Minseo has learned to survive Haneulseong High with caffeine, planners, and silence—until a mismatched exam packet and a quiet accusation threaten ... →