Brutalist Stories

In this world, everyone gets superpowers. But not all of them are helpful. In fact, they can tear you apart. ~ When Lira turns 18, she finally gets her Resonance: the ability to sense and enhance emotions. But there's a cost: For everyone who gets their emotions enhanced, she gets closer to losing them. She feels horrible grief. This prevents her from focusing on other emotions. And it's slowly breaking her completely. But if she can work with the rebels on time, however, her world may be saved.

I have sat often in front of the computer, and stared long at the screen without ever writing a word. The synopsis for this project has haunted me since the first person asked me "So, what is it about?", and to this day I have never been able to deliver a straight answer. This book is about a number of things, many of which do not fit evenly into a succinct description. I have tried to make them fit and have found the resulting descriptions ill-representing and dull. Thus, I have decided to go without a description. This book will fade into obscurity no matter what I put here, so I might as well write what's really important. Winter in a city is an especially punishing time. This book comes out of my late nights and early mornings riding the train, and my looking at the window and being able to make out nothing but the blur of the glass. From the outside it may look dead, but certain people know that the inner workings of a city are a true marvel to behold. In writing this, I have tried to capture that marvel and deliver it to you, the reader. This is a book about a city and the people within it. The rest is up for you to read, if you so choose. Pyre lives on whether you experience it or not. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A science-fiction novel, updated whenever there is new material to post. The last cover was AI generated, so I spent some time making a crude cover of my own. For the sake of Wattpad I have divided up the chapters into parts, so everything under "The Glow" is Chapter 1 and so on. If you have read this far into the description, I thank you; you've made it further than mostly everyone before you. I hope you stick around. ⠀⠀

Eden is a city within a 450 foot concrete wall. Over more than a century as an established society, none of its citizens has seen the outside world, no one seems interested. 'Remember the enemy' Maevera Quinn is 18 years old when she is pulled out of her occupation as a child care provider to train with Eden's military. She was just like everyone else, not a care in the world about what goes on behind the wall. She only started questioning her entire life when she met Dakota. One of the youngest top ranking military officials at only 19. Together, they embark on a journey that sheds light on the lies they've been taught since before they could remember. But when rebellion turns to chaos, Maevera doesn't know who she can trust.