Him (a very fictional love story)

Camille was 40, childless, and unbothered by it. While the world spun in chaotic loops around her, she did her best to laugh. Political uproar, elections rigged, economies collapsing, climate on the brink of disaster… Camille found solace in her curated corner of the internet. Her social media presence was subtle yet magnetic: movie recommendations, political musings, funny memes and pictures of her cat. She was by no means an influencer, but she had a following. A niche one. The kind that attracted people who thought too much and felt too little.

One of them was him.

Noah at least, that was one of his names lived alone in the woods, off-grid, surviving on generator power and cached internet. Camille didn’t even know what cached internet meant. He had found Camille by accident, or maybe fate. A late-night scroll through a philosophy thread had led him to her page, and then to her mind. He had been alone for years, by choice, rejecting society, rejecting them. The ones who controlled the…