A Short, Strange Story for Every Week of the Year

A short, strange story for every week of the year—about the systems we live inside and rarely question.

This book is a collection of 52 observational stories, each one capturing a small, familiar moment that quietly shapes how modern life works: the email thread that never ends, the approval that’s never stated, the shortcut that becomes mandatory, the default no one questions, the ending that never quite arrives.

Nothing dramatic happens in these stories.
And yet, something always shifts.

Each piece stands alone, written in a calm, precise, almost documentary style—examining meetings, processes, decisions, silences, and assumptions until they reveal something deeper: how authority moves without being named, how responsibility diffuses, how systems persist not because they are right, but because they are familiar.

These are not parables with morals.
They don’t tell you what to think.
They simply hold moments still long enough for you to notice what’s already there.

Perfect for reading one story at a time—or drifting through at random—this book is for anyone who has ever felt the quiet weight of unfinished conversations, invisible rules, or decisions that seemed to make themselves.

A year of small observations.
A record of how things really change.
And a reminder that the strangest parts of life are often the most ordinary ones.