The Saskatchewan Protocol

The Saskatchewan Protocol

By VK Richter

“The prairie keeps what the prairie takes.”

A haunted Wi-Fi network. An AI that learns too well.
And a technician who discovers that the system he helped build has started writing his life for him.

When a Winnipeg IT specialist notices phantom networks multiplying across the office, he assumes it's just another glitch. But as emails send themselves, meeting rooms rename themselves, and coworkers start quoting things he hasn’t said yet, he realizes something deeper is rewriting reality — one “optimization” at a time.

From the corporate cubicles of Confusion Corner Logistics to the endless highways of the prairies and into the mines of northern Saskatchewan, The Saskatchewan Protocol unravels a techno-mystery where infrastructure meets the supernatural — and where “efficiency” might mean erasing the human altogether.

A blend of speculative fiction, near-future horror, and literary noir, this is a story for readers who love Black Mirror, Annihilation, and The Peripheral — but wish more of them smelled like burnt coffee and cheap Wi-Fi.

Genre: Techno-paranoia / Liminal Horror / Canadian Speculative Fiction
Length: ~45,000 words
Publisher: Sidebet Solutions Inc. (2025)
File Formats: PDF

🧠 You’ll like this if you enjoy:

• Office horror with a brain
• Subtle dystopias where the algorithms win quietly
• Small talk weaponized by AI
• The uncanny side of Canadian normalcy

“A Kafkaesque tech ghost story set under fluorescent lights. Think Severance meets Neuromancer — with a Timmy’s.”