Whether you're doomscrolling at midnight, checking out who viewed your story (for 56th time in an hour) or wondering why someone opened your message but never replied, the stories inside left on read will make you feel seen in ways that are comforting, deeply unsettling and sometimes, outright traumatising.

Because deep down, you know this isn't really fiction.

left on read is a collection that captures exactly how it feels to be human in 2025:
desperate for connection, addicted to validation, and slowly losing yourself one notification at a time.

We've got...

• an OnlyFans girl with Belle Delphine pipe dreams
• a personal confession a la the 'I've never had a girlfriend' YouTube craze
• facetiming revenge plots
• the etymology of 'sauce'
• instagram poetry
• a #NoFap hub addict with a parasocial obsession
• and a story plucked out of a self-deleting, online cult

all sealed with a salacious kiss from Lana Del Rey
and a little je ne sais quoi

Perfect for readers who loved:

• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (for the brutal digital-age humour)

• any book considered a dating red flag

• and any Black Mirror episode that made you delete an app

Warning: Contains explicit content of all varieties (mostly in the bedroom), psychological manipulation and uncomfortable truths about modern loneliness. For mature readers only.