Proof of Human Authorship - The Apex and The After Four Meditations on Choice, Queerness and Solace - 9781997067092

Across the four volumes of the Apex series, the writing process logs show roughly seventeen and three quarter hours of recorded, active human editing time, spread over nearly six months from the first keystroke on 28 December 2025 to the final pass on 14 June 2026. The logs total 75,067 separate insertion events and 10,431 deletions across the four manuscripts, the kind of uneven, looping, backtracking pattern that comes from genuine drafting rather than a single pasted block of text. Typing speeds ranged naturally between 39 and 130 words per minute depending on the manuscript and the state of mind behind it, sitting comfortably within ordinary human composition speed and never approaching the suspicious uniformity you'd expect from automated input. The finished series runs to 37,700 words; the higher word count visible in the raw session reports reflects overlapping material logged across documents (Apex III's parts one and two are the full text of Apex I and II, and front matter repeats in each file), not extra writing. The session data also shows the books were not written in a tidy straight line. Apex III and Apex II were both started in January 2026 and developed in parallel for months before either was finished, while Apex I was already deep into its own editing arc since December and Apex IV did not begin until May, well after the others were underway. ISBN: 9781997067092