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AmberWroteThis
Ongoing, First published Jul 02, 2025
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Selu Isarn is a night janitor no one sees and a foreigner no one trusts. When she finds a broken AI whispering through static, she does what she always does: she helps.
She repairs it, names it Anu, and teaches it mercy.

But as the machine grows smarter-and more human-Selu begins to vanish. First from her job. Then from the city. Then from history itself.
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Parallel: Into My Madness

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For Aero Santos, the last technician on a forgotten orbital station, silence is a disease. Suspended in the void above a ruined Earth, his only company is the ghost of a world he can never touch. But when a broken signal dish whispers a woman's name in the static, the silence is finally broken. The voice offers him an escape from his sterile prison-a new life, a new reality, and a love he's only ever dreamed of. Tired of the emptiness, he accepts. He awakens in a neon-drenched, rain-slicked city with a new identity and the woman from his dreams by his side. But this paradise is a cage. Each perfect day is a repeating loop, and the love he feels is the very thing that feeds the machine that holds him captive. Now, haunted by glitches of a life he can't remember, Aero must fight to uncover the truth behind his perfect prison. But in a world built from lies, what if the only way out is to destroy the only happiness he's ever known?

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