Status Update

Joyce is 10% done

4 hours. They say it depends on your height, weight … the amount of space you take up vs. the amount of space that’s left over, how calm you can keep yourself after you’re put in the box. But who’s ever been down there in the dark holding a stopwatch until one’s dying breath? It’s only an educated guess, but most guesses agree: 4 hours max.

— Jan 31, 2026 06:34AM

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Joyce’s Previous Updates

Joyce is 93% done

Not a fall as much as a folding, like taking down a tent, returning it to a size that could fit in a sack

— Feb 03, 2026 07:54PM

Joyce is 87% done

I feel the hit … a scalding cut in the flesh above the elbow. … I’ve been shot.

The knife, the point going in just below my ribs … The pain isn’t at all like the burning heat of being shot. Knives are cold. Knives are ice. … I’m pulling it out with both hands, … the ice twice as cold as it exits.

— Feb 03, 2026 07:49PM

Joyce is 66% done

Yet when he looked at us, it seemed as though he only saw a nagging cost he’d be glad to erase from the ledger one day.

— Feb 03, 2026 07:40PM

Joyce is 65% done

How “for certain” are you?

You’re asking a psychic, Claire. I don’t do “for certain”.

— Feb 03, 2026 07:38PM

Joyce is 64% done

A search for a child is fueled by coffee and terror in equal measures, and they both can be found easily anywhere

— Feb 03, 2026 07:36PM

Joyce is 63% done

If you brought me up here to be smart, you brought the wrong guy.

— Feb 02, 2026 05:11AM

Joyce is 53% done

Where’s your husband?

He might be at church. That’s where he tells me he goes. He may be praying to the Lord Budweiser at McConnell’s Pub, for all I know.

— Feb 01, 2026 02:36PM

Joyce is 52% done

An open bag of bread on the counter, slices tumbling over each other as if in a stampede to get out of the opening …

— Feb 01, 2026 02:32PM

Joyce is 48% done

CARD team: child abduction rapid deployment

— Feb 01, 2026 02:05PM

Joyce is 47% done

Nate Russo is 220 lbs. w/catcher’s mitts for hands.

— Feb 01, 2026 01:35PM