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Vivian Sims

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Literary Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Humor

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Vivian Sims writes fiction about systems that work exactly as intended — and what happens to the people inside them.

Her We Stayed Anyway series follows the people who stayed long after things stopped making sense. Three titles are available: No One Told Me to Stay, Twist Clockwise and Pull Up, and Prompt, Pray, Survive.

We Built the System is the companion series — the same workplace, from the other side. The first title, The Translucent Scale, is forthcoming.

The Silence She Hummed — the first title in The Uncanny Hours, a collection of standalone novellas — is forthcoming in 2026.

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Measured carefully. Understood poorly.

I’ve written about the people who stay inside the system.
This series is about the people who built it.

We Built the System opens with a short story.

📖The Translucent Scale
Measured carefully. Understood poorly.

A founder whose numbers were right, once. A cleaner who has emptied the same bin every working day for eleven years. A water bottle on the corner desk, a little lower every morning. Nobody says Read more of this blog post »

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