The Screentime Letters

A “Screwtape for a digital age,” inspired by C. S. Lewis.

Hell has gone digital—and the algorithms are hungry.

The tempter’s playbook has gone wireless. In this new set of infernal dispatches, veteran demon Clankerclaw coaches his apprentice in the fine art of exploiting humanity’s digital entanglements. His arena: the endless scroll, the curated self, the dopamine economy of likes and swipes. His aim: not to make humans stop believing in the Enemy, but to make belief irrelevant, drowned beneath the noise of the feed.

This time, the battleground is the life of a first-year college student, newly untethered and newly vulnerable, drifting between lecture halls, dorm rooms, and glowing screens.

Here you’ll see how the simplest digital habits become infernal gold mines: the compulsive refreshing of newsfeeds, the public performance of virtue, the endless chase for the “next” experience, and the quiet erasure of anything inconveniently human. Technology replaces presence with performance, connection with consumption, and identity with an endlessly mutable avatar. In Clankerclaw’s hands, every notification becomes a whisper from the pit, and every algorithm a net cast for the soul.

Witty, unsettling, and uncomfortably on target, The Screentime Letters invites you to overhear the ancient Adversary plotting for a new century—one in which distraction is total, appetite infinite, and the road to perdition well paved with pixels.

For readers who love C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, these dispatches reimagine the timeless battle between Heaven and Hell for an age of smartphones, social media, and synthetic identities. Disturbingly funny and sharply observant, The Screentime Letters will make you laugh, wince, and perhaps—just perhaps—put down your phone.

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