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OUR INTERREGNUM - Spring 2026

Six strangers answer a late-night post on a Dublin community board and begin meeting every Tuesday in a Stoneybatter pub. An Irish woman laid off from fintech. A retired professor who has outlived the friends who could confirm his memories. A Nigerian engineer counting the days on his work permit. A Spanish journalist filling a notebook. A young American linguist writing a thesis with the machine she is writing about. A Polish contractor who lays floors and says the truest things at the table. None of them can agree on why the world is coming apart, whether the cause is the war, the AI transformation, the fracturing of the old order, or all of it at once. So they gather to be confused together, and the gathering becomes the thing that holds. This is documentary fiction written in real time, alongside the events it describes, from inside the not-knowing. It is a record of what it felt like to be alive in the spring of 2026, when one world order was ending and the next had not yet arrived. Twenty years from now, a reader who was too young to remember may open this and understand what was in people's minds as they made the decisions they made. Written by Lorenzo Hagerty in collaborati

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