In the silence of low Earth orbit, something is shifting.
A near-future geopolitical crisis unfolds, not through fire or declaration, but through hesitation — a whisper in the latency of a satellite mesh that no longer behaves as expected. At the centre of it all is a systems architect, once intimate with the constellation he helped build, now slowly excluded from its logic. As drones go dark and orbits drift too close, the line between anomaly and intention dissolves.
Orbiting Instability is a literary fiction novella of restraint, longing, and technological seduction. Told in spare, charged prose, it explores what happens when critical infrastructure becomes selective — when global deterrence relies on systems that listen, but no longer to us.
A blend of speculative fiction, systems theory, and abstract eroticism, this story invites readers into a world where intimacy is measured in milliseconds, silence can be strategic, and the deepest betrayals are executed with perfect technical compliance.