Annarstica Studio

Fiction that names
what you already feel

Short stories and satire for people still figuring out how to stay — or how to leave. Always honest. Never offering easy answers.

Our Author

The writer behind the work

Vivian Sims

Vivian Sims

Workplace satire · Dark humor · Deadpan fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Speculative Fiction

Vivian Sims writes literary and satirical fiction about systems — and the people who stay inside them. Her work spans deadpan workplace satire and speculative literary fiction, always asking the same question from different floors of the same building.

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Series

Stories from the same universe

The Uncanny Hours

Vivian Sims

Systems that work as intended — and what that costs the people inside them. A novella collection where the horror is institutional, the damage is precise, and nothing breaks down. It just keeps running. Strange, exact, and quietly devastating.

Coming 2026

We Built the System

Vivian Sims

The other side of the desk. Stories from the people who built the systems everyone else is stuck in.

Coming 2026

We Stayed Anyway

Vivian Sims

Short stories about the quiet cost of staying in systems that were never built for humans. Sharp, honest, and never offering easy answers.

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