About Captive Liberty

Captive Liberty presents short stories and poetry recontextualizing our digital present as a distant future’s mythic past. The short-form entertainment pieces on this blog allude equally to computer scientists like Dennis Ritchie and Russian novelists like Fyodor Dostoyevsky. For readers curious how internet technologies may reshape our primitive heritage of religious cults and hero superstitions, Captive Liberty light-heartedly reexamines our present moment’s twilight of the analog.

The title of this blog comes from the prophet Isaiah:

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives

and freedom to the prisoners

To proclaim a year of the Lord’s favor

Isaiah 61:1b-2a