Sectorzero Stories

Silas wakes up in a place that barely feels alive - a broken landscape of dead trees, rusted fences, and ash-colored skies. There are no answers. Just an abandoned village, a bunch of teenagers, and a word written on his neck... The place is called Sector Zero - a forgotten zone surrounded by high and thick walls-impossible to climb. No one talks about the world before. No one questions why they're there. Survival means following the rules: stay quiet, obey orders, and never try to escape. The outside world is worse, they're told-full of creatures that used to be human. But Silas isn't like the others. He watches. He listens. He writes. And the more time passes, the more he begins to feel it-a truth buried just beneath the silence, clawing its way to the surface. In a city that controls everything - thoughts, memories, even your identity - what happens when one boy pretends to be exactly what they want... just to survive? • 3,000-5,000 words/chapter Dead Zone Silenced (book 1): Null

The charitable sector, as we once knew it no longer exists. The culminating event is known as zero hour, the moment the charitable sector lost its tax exempt status. Amidst the ruins of charitable sector organizations a new form of social change dominates - swarms, loosely connected individuals who coalesce for a limited time to accomplish a specific social purpose. Azalia Aquino, a former millennial and leader of the de Tocqueville society, a collective of emergents- individuals who practice swarming , feels something dark looming on the horizon that threatens their very survival. Can Azalia find the Architect, a mysterious figure believed to be the founder of the de Tocqueville society? Her former ties to Independent Sector, an institution thought to have shattered from the initial shock wave of zero hour may hold the answers. Will Azalia and the Architect be able to meld new forms of human centric, technology enabled activism with existing institutional structures and imperatives? The fate of the future hangs in the balance.