Archive - The Quiet Part Out Loud

[FLASH FICTION] The Algorithmic Therapist

What happens when empathy becomes a metric and treating patients becomes a crime?

13 hrs ago •

The Quiet Part Out Loud is now on Chat (web & mobile)

Jul 8 •

[ESSAY] The $100,000 I’ll Never See and the Vacation I Can’t Take

How corporate surveys simulate generosity while draining your will to live

Jul 7 •

[SERIAL] THE EDUCATION OF ELIAS RIGG, CONTINUED

In Which Elias Quietly Begins to Chart Everything That Cannot Be Measured

Jul 3 •

June 2025

[FLASH FICTION] The Clerical Eternal

Clerical obedience in a system designed for no one

Jun 30 •

[ESSAY] The Moment She Turned Off the Lights

What a hospital drama gets right about real empathy

Jun 25 •

[FICTION] THE ROUNDS REDUX

In Which Elias Encounters the Eyewitness, the Twitch, and the Judgement of the Clipboard

Jun 22 •

[ESSAY] The PTO Abyss (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Spreadsheet)

Nothing says "benefit" like using your vacation to cover hospital holidays

Jun 19 •

[SERIAL] WORKING TERMS: THE INDEX (OF INCOMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS)

Filed in No Order, Signed by No One, Circulated as Truth Anyway

Jun 18 •

[FLASH FICTION] The Empathy Broker

In the new economy, even your feelings can be subcontracted

Jun 14 •

[SERIAL] THE MAZE AND THE GHOSTS

Being an Orientation Manual for the Unoriented Idiot, in Which Elias Learns the Hospital Was Never Meant to Be Escaped

Jun 12 •

[SERIAL] A DIGRESSION ON THE EDUCATION AND FORGING OF ONE ELIAS RIGG

Being a Recollection of How One Becomes Entrusted with Latex Gloves, Thermometers, and the Hourly Intimacy of Strangers

Jun 10 •

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