ONcE: written by TiM Ki (PROTOCOLS OF DISTURBANCE)

ONcE by Tim KraefAn electrician from rural Germany writes a book. 88 printed copies. Self-published. No one responds — or do they?ONcE is an autobiographical thriller in fifteen chapters. Chronological. Document-based. No fiction.It's about a collarbone fracture that was treated wrong. About books mailed to musicians, politicians, and a German Chancellor. About a music company in Hamburg that makes an envelope disappear — and somehow the state police get involved. About an algorithm that creates connections nobody planned. About a friend who died in August 2025.And about one question: What happens when someone writes everything down — date, time, exact wording — and the world acts like nothing happened?If you know Bloodhound Gang. If you know Eminem. If you ever laughed at something you probably shouldn't have — this book knows where you've been.Fifteen chapters. 29,000 words. Once.ONcE is Tim Kraef's third book and the documentary core of the series protokolle der störung. It comes from the Hunsrück — hill country between the Rhine and the Moselle in western Germany. Far from everything. Close to nothing. The perfect place to start a protocol.A note on AI involvement: ONcE is not AI-generated. Every sentence was written by Tim Kraef. The AI served as research tool, structural aid, and conversation partner. The counterpart — where the AI itself took over from the same raw material — is The Great Dangling. Read more