Eight stories from the world of The Policy. You do not need to have read the novel to read these stories, and you do not need to read them in order.

  1. The Whimper
  2. Hemorrhagic
  3. Jamal’s Dawn
  4. Seventy-Eight Percent
  5. The Naive Variants
  6. The First Disagreement
  7. Process 12847
  8. The Kindness Audit

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