SterlingWinters
CLOCKED OUT
Your time is their money. Your mind is their asset.
[THRILLER / PSYCHOLOGICAL / CORPORATE HORROR]
Thirty years. Sixty-thousand hours.
That's how much of his life Arthur Miller traded for a beige cubicle, a mediocre 401(k), and a gold-plated watch that stopped ticking the exact moment he received it. For three decades, Arthur was the perfect corporate zombie-invisible, compliant, and numb. He thought he was just a tiny, forgotten cog in the multi-billion-dollar machine of Apex Financial.
He was wrong.
Triggered by a sudden panic attack on his 30th work anniversary, Arthur decides to do the math on his life. But when he audits his own digital footprint and keystroke logs, he uncovers a terrifying anomaly: every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for the last fifteen years is a complete black hole. The data is there, encrypted at a military grade, but Arthur has absolutely no memory of those hours.
To his brain, those afternoons never happened.
As Arthur digs deeper into the dark sub-basements of Apex Financial, he realizes his mind hasn't just been wandering-it's been hijacked. The company has been using his compliance, his clearance, and his literal consciousness to sign off on global crimes while he was "clocked out."
Now that Arthur is finally awake, he wants his time back. And a man who realizes he has already lost his entire life is the most dangerous asset on the payroll.