Fineprint Stories

An original internet-horror thriller by Kishtika They didn't hack the school. They hacked consent. And everyone signed-because it looked like a perk. When a "Student Perks" app drops at Mara's elite-but-broke magnet school, it spreads like oxygen. One tap: perfect grades. instant status. dream internships. Nobody reads the terms-why would they? It's free. Mara reads them anyway. Buried in the fine print is a clause that turns her blood cold: conditional ownership of one (1) future regret-redeemable at the Company's discretion. Then, at midnight, a dead account posts a story: a black screen that says- "last seen online 3 seconds ago." Anyone who watches has 72 hours. Because watching isn't a curse. It's a signature. And the moment you "agree," the app starts collecting: first tiny losses-smells, jokes, faces-then the big ones: bonds, time, identity. Students begin glitching out of attendance. Names vanish from records. Parents forget their own children mid-sentence. The school keeps smiling like nothing is wrong. So Mara builds a secret resistance: The Terms & Conditions Club. Their mission is simple-prove what the app is taking, find the escape clause, and save the ones already signed away. But the deeper they dig, the uglier the truth becomes: the contracts are personalized, inherited, and engineered so that opting out feels impossible. To rescue the people the system is erasing, Mara may have to do the unthinkable- accept on purpose... and rewrite the machine from inside. © Kishtika., 2025 All rights reserved.

you were the fine print to my life, and here's why

It's all down to the fine print. Isn't it always?