Malibu Blue

Spiro lives in the poor, dusty outskirts of a massive, wealthy, and technologically advanced city governed by a group called the Company. He has one of everything - one rusty bicycle, one job at the local convenience store, one AI friend, and one hobby: cobbling together illegal tech from scrapped parts. Everything about his life indicates a future where he lives and dies alone.

Except: one day, in the middle of the night, someone breaks into his computer system to send him a message.

Simultaneously publishing on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Malibu-Blue