Day 2,094

We call them Fragments, glitched out remnants of dead users whose accounts weren't close down properly. They're like a form of VR ghost, or the closest we'll get to a ghost that we can prove exists. You never used to see them as often as you do now but everything's gone a bit weird since the founder died a couple of months back.

It's like all the Fragments had been contained somewhere and now the floodgates are open and they're free to wander about in whatever loop they were in before they were originally reported. There's a absolute heap of controversy about the lack of anything being done about them now, mostly from people who're seeing loved ones doing whatever they did most in the VR site.

For some it's watching a video over and over and over again, for others its porn. It's bad enough to lose someone who means the world to you but to see them pop up on a list of "Top 10 X Rated Fragments" is a whole other kind of awful.

One thing most people haven't seemed to realise just yet is that the Fragments aren't stuck in place. they can relocate their looping to wherever their binary little minds want to. Our homes are packed to the gills with tech and more connected to the web than ever before, there's so many places for a Fragment to appear and so much chaos they can cause.

My brother's loop was the moment he broke a world record for speed-racing his favourite game. I'd find him in his favourite VR bar celebrating and throwing fake booze everywhere. Last night I found him launching cutlery out of the dishwasher and nearly got knifed.

I don't know if he'll be there tonight but I've unplugged everything just in case.