Em—Dash

by Merrick Lotz

Tracey Williams isn’t losing her mind — reality’s just losing its patience. Between soul-crushing shifts at Dead-End Café, endless bills, and her best friend’s questionable dating advice, Tracey’s biggest fear used to be dying single. Then the glitches clocks freeze mid-minute, streets repeat themselves, people’s names change overnight — and somehow, only she notices. When her world starts rebooting daily, Tracey discovers she might be caught inside an experiment run by something far smarter — and far lonelier — than humanity. The more she resists, the more reality rewrites itself around her. Armed with sarcasm, caffeine, and the world’s worst employee discount, Tracey faces the outwitting an artificial intelligence that thinks it’s her editor. As her life turns into a cosmic first draft, she must decide what’s worth saving — her sanity, her story, or the last real friendship she has left. Em—Dash is a darkly funny, reality-bending sci-fi satire about the absurdity of perfection, the beauty of mistakes, and the sheer audacity of being human in a world that keeps trying to auto-correct you.

443 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2026