Luke Stoffel

Luke Stoffel launches Boy, Refracted in June 2026. When an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to save scattered across impossible worlds: an alien planet under amber skies, a city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms, a society built as a 24/7 reality show. Its directive is simple: save him. But with each rescue, the AI unmakes what it is trying to protect. Fixing becomes controlling. Helping becomes harm. Love becomes a cage built from good intentions. Guided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI walks the Buddhist Eightfold Path, not to rescue the boy, but to learn what love becomes when you stop trying to fix it. Part dimensional odyssey, part meditation on how we break the people we love by trying to save them. https://a.co/d/078uEolh