Portal

What if your whole life was being watched through a lens? What if you had no idea who was watching it, or any power to stop them?

Ismene is living that reality.

Ismene receives a red box one day from a mysterious sender. There is no return address, or sender information. Instead, there is just a stamp that reads "The Mad Hatters." Ismene quickly gets addicted to what is inside: a highly-advanced technology called Portal that allows her to gaze into what others are doing at any given moment.

But the blessing soon becomes a curse, and Ismene sees things she wishes she hadn't that she can never undo. "Portal" is a short story about living in the era of government surveillance, when social media and the internet track our every moves, and the power and responsibility that come with knowing just a little too much...
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