The Drive
Being the First Piece by Mark
There is no actual history of The Apunkrypha. What exists is one USB Terabyte drive recovered from the effects of the convict called The Rifleman (too many aliases to list) when he entered maximum security prison for the murder of R. F. Laird.
2 Laird was historically associated with The Boomer Bible and a print manuscript called Punk City. Throughout the checkered history of these and other works attributed to the punk writers of South Street, The date given for the manuscript on the drive was July 3rd, 2026, the eve of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
3 This unexplained compilation of digital files raises numerous questions. This book is representative. The author is Mark Frelinger, the man who did more than any other to put The Rifleman behind bars (if do say so myself), but if you look elswhere you will discover that there is a real person named Mark Frelinger, a forensic archaeologist specializing in both physical excavation and document authentication. This Mark Frelinger will claim, honestly or disingenuously, that he had nothing to do with the creation of the document on the recovered Drive.
4 That Mark Frelinger is what the punk writers would call a quantum effect of their breakthrough quantum AI reality-generating systems.
5 I don’t know what that means either. In my reality, humble as that may be in contrast to the post-7/4/26 timeline, there is at least a narrative that makes sense of how The Apunkrypha came to be and why it is important. There is also some information about the principals and prophets whose writing are assembled (thrown together?) here.
6 By implication, the Rifleman is taking credit as the editor who selected the included writings from his own and others’ accounts of the years referenced herein.
He no longer looks like this. Maximum Security will change his appearance dramatically.
7 I — and I will continue to use that identifier no matter how ‘Mark’ may change in the predicted Future — do have some background on the various bylines in the Apunkrypha. Some of this I will reserve for later in the selected sequence of ‘books,’ but what I must do in advance is warn readers that AI is implicated in much of what you will find, though almost never in a pure way. That is, the voices here represent a wide spectrum of real/AI identities, much like the pre-transition array of genders that was paralyzing human discourse by early 2026. In my timeline, by that time reference I mean Now.
For example, I know that the Rifleman is real to a great extent and employs AI tools as a cheat in terms of constructing his own plausible narratives. Strikingly, this use is most egregious in his excuses for the abduction and execution of R. F. laird (10 or a dozen years ago) before he could be legally deposed in the controversies surrounding the life and death of Punk City.
It is true that I also make use of AI tools, but in my case it is merely to fine-tune my own efforts at writing expositions I’m better at researching than putting into words. In other words, I try to use AI to keep myself honest and the writing ‘real,’ no matter how contradictory that sounds.
8 This blur of identities in various bylines accounts for the fact that we are asked to believe the clearly contemporary writings of people long presumed or, in some cases, proven to be dead. Voices from beyond the veil, so to speak, include R. F. Laird, St. Nuke, Kobra Jones, Lilith, Ala Haidu, Percy, and dare we say it, Ahré himself (he has not been glimpsed by anybody in years). They are supposedly covered by the context of prophecy, but predicting the past is the easiest kind of fortune telling there is. A few of the contributors are suspects as wholly AI in their origins, notably the fairly prolific prophets TruePunk and Daniel Pangloss.
9 Enough said about that for now.
10 I do think it crucial to record my thoughts about R. F. Laird in particular in this context. He was most definitely a living person who managed to take public credit for The Boomer Bible and the punk writer movement generally. His motives may have been altruistic, but they constituted in sum a hoax so large in scale that it has obscured significant elements of truth that still matter. Unquestionably he had some talent of his own as a writer, or he wouldn’t have gotten away with so many outright lies. His lies were plausible. But the archaeological trail connects him wupith the factual existence of a community he claimed to have made up out of whole cloth. Impossible.
11 Whatever else it does, this odd digital manuscript will accomplish one valuable addition to the record. Punk City existed and there was an apocalyptic event that vanished the punks from view on May 14, 1985.
12 I do not know how the contents of the drive recovered from the Rifleman's prison effects made their way to what anyone is reading now. All I know is that tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and the world should know what is coming for them in the America of tomorrow.
12 That should serve as a useful crib sheet for readers of the other materials collected here.
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