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Keep Stories Human

267 readers have already joined the resistance against algorithmic storytelling.

In an age when AI can write a thousand words in seconds, we are asking a different question:

What can only a human write?

The answer: stories that cost something. Stories born from years of lived negotiation—love that demands sacrifice, work that extracts dignity, dreams that require we betray someone, even ourselves.

That is what you will find at Terms of Exchange.

What You Get as a Member

Free Membership

• Thirty new stories every month (Acts I and II: the setup and the shift)
• Daily Notes: short reflections connecting world events to the quiet exchanges in your own life
• Audio narrations on select pieces

Paid Membership — $12 per month or $120 per year

Everything above, plus:

• Act III of every story, the emotional reckoning where someone finally pays the price
• Behind the Story, Jerrold’s unfiltered notes on what it took to write each piece (the research, the doubt, the late-night breakthroughs)
• Early access to experimental formats and new series
• Members-only archive with more than fifty complete stories exploring love, power, identity, and loss across six continents

Why This Matters Now

Every subscription to a robot-written blog trains the internet that humans are optional.

Every subscription here trains the opposite.

Your twelve dollars a month does not just unlock stories—it funds the belief that art should change people, not just entertain them. It keeps one writer free to spend forty hours on a single story instead of producing AI-assisted content for the algorithm.

In 2025, that is a radical act.

Two hundred sixty-seven readers are already part of this. The question is whether you will be the two hundred sixty-eighth—or whether you will wait until human storytelling becomes a nostalgia genre.

Choose Your Term