This page announces a curated archive of Protocolized's past contests, commissioned series, and special projects, including the Terminological Twists contest where authors built stories around technical terms, the Knowledge Futurama series by Sachin Benny exploring humanity's efforts to preserve libraries across millennia, and the Ghosts in Machines contest reimagining spectral entities within computational systems.
Elizabeth Maher's series concludes with a narrative about Janice Spurlock, who designs the Concord Settlement with deliberate impermanence—structures built to be completely dismantled and leave no trace. The story explores how one woman anticipated cultural collapse by engineering everything, from buildings to records, to vanish without archaeological evidence.
Elizabeth Maher
This is a polemical visitor's guide to a mysterious geographical site called the Disposition, written by an anonymous author who has observed it for forty years and disputes official narratives about its nature and nomenclature. The text rails against deliberate campaigns of misinformation and mischaracterization by institutional authorities, establishing the author's preferred terminology and framing as the correct interpretation of this contested place.
Elizabeth Maher
A speculative narrative explores inherited memory practices and familial wisdom through the metaphor of a mental palace, suggesting that inheritance operates through psychological and temporal transmission rather than material goods. The story examines how neglecting inherited practices creates accumulating danger and reveals hidden dimensions of family obligation and self-construction.
Amita