The Distortion Zone
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Last published Sun, Mar 23, 2025
(Yes I know the cover is AI. Using it as a placeholder for now until I draw it).
When Sarah Morgan's husband, Ethan, returns from a mission to explore a massive anomaly known as "The Distortion Zone," he's the only survivor from a team of scientists who ventured inside. His body is marked by strange mutations, and he can't remember what happened within the Zone. As they attempt to seek medical help, government agents stop them, citing secrecy and national security concerns. The leader of the scientific expedition, Dr. Simon Thorne, recruits Sarah to find out what happened to the team inside the Zone. Despite the danger, Sarah agrees to go in, desperate for answers and to save her husband from the horrifying effects of the anomaly.
Inside the Zone, time and reality break down, warped by a powerful, ever-growing bubble of energy. Sarah must navigate a deadly landscape full of mutated animals, lost memories, and shifting realities. As she encounters horrifying creatures like the Bone-Maw Hound, Gnarled Grizzly, and Rift-Prowlers, she begins to uncover dark secrets about the anomaly-and its connection to her past. The more Sarah learns, the more she realizes the truth might be worse than she could have imagined.
As Sarah ventures deeper into the heart of the Zone, she begins to feel its influence on her mind, questioning what is real and what is merely a product of the distortion. Every step she takes unravels a terrifying discovery about Ethan's past involvement in the experiments that created the anomaly. But the true danger is far greater than the mutated creatures stalking her-there is something inside the Zone that has been waiting for someone to find it.
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