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Through the Veil

Thatgurlaturdoor

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Thatgurlaturdoor

ambys2025 dystopian memory sciencefiction scifi shortstory

Memories are power. Memories are profit. Memories are everything.

Kael has built his life on stealing them, one dive at a time, in a city that chews people up and leaves them hollow. But when a routine job uncovers the Hive-a government program designed to strip individuality from every citizen-Kael finds himself at the heart of a rebellion he never wanted.

With his estranged sister hunting him, a charismatic ally hiding secrets of his own, and an ancient force whispering from beyond, Kael must face a truth that terrifies him: he may be the only key to stopping the Hive.

But saving humanity might cost him the one thing he values most: his freedom.All Rights Reserved

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Post Plague Kidnapping - Published! by vblawnola

It's been five years since the plague struck. Leah knows there are other survivors, but she's avoiding them. She is doing just fine on her own. Surviving after everyone she knew died has made her physically strong and honed her intelligence, but she is emotionally devastated. There is nothing to fear if you don't make yourself emotionally vulnerable. James has spent the last five years helping to build up a colony of survivors. He believes in the small town they have populated and its mission to save humanity from extinction. He and his small team of men find scattered people and bring them in. Over the last two centuries, women have fought for and won more and more rights, gaining equality with men. Society, law, and technology bolsters and enforces these rights, but now they are gone. Women's equality with men is over. There are just too few of them. They aren't lesser but greater, more important, more valuable than men. Men are expendable. Men can stay outside alone if they like, but all women must be brought inside the safety of the Colony and properly taken care of. James has been searching the area Leah lives in. Her time of solitude is up. Leah sparks something in James he's never felt before. He's not letting this one get away, certainly not twice. Warning: Contains sex, some violence, occasional foul language, and adult issues. Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Post-apocalyptic, Dark romance Length: 84,468 words This book has been published on Amazon. The first ten chapters will be updated to what you get in the published novel and will remain here, so you can try before you buy.

Tabula Rasa by TabulaRasaProject

The gods got tired of meaning. So they built one last story - a man born without memory or destiny. A "tabula rasa." In a world where faith is performance and freedom is a brand, Kael is the experiment no one planned to survive. Watched by a broken prophet and a creature who kills to feel alive, he becomes the question his creator never dared to ask: What if the only way to be real is to stop playing the part? ⚡ A mythpunk story about exhaustion, rebellion, and the search for something true in a universe that forgot how to mean.

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The Memory Collector by ILikeBooks215

--- *Description* In the crumbling coastal town of Grayers Bay, people are forgetting things vital things. Names, faces, entire lives vanish from their minds overnight. There's no explanation. No warning. Just a strange humming in the air before the memories disappear. *Nova Sinclair* has spent the last decade in hiding, keeping a dangerous secret: she can see and absorb memories through touch. It's a curse she's tried to bury until she stumbles upon a woman on the beach who collapses without a single memory left. Now, with the town slipping into collective amnesia and the echoes of a covert experiment she once escaped resurfacing, Nova is the only one who knows what's really happening. But the deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a terrifying truth: Someone is *harvesting memories* and they're just getting started. To stop it, Nova will have to confront her fractured past, navigate a web of deception, and decide just how much of herself she's willing to sacrifice. Because in a world where memories are currency, forgetting is the ultimate weapon. --- Ranks --- #168 - technology # 430 - memories #135 - independent #108 - mission #9 - scifi #103 - memoryloss

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The Prince's Choice ✔ by WhiteGoldFangs

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Post Plague Kidnapping - Published!

It's been five years since the plague struck. Leah knows there are other survivors, but she's avoiding them. She is doing just fine on her own. Surviving after everyone she knew died has made her physically strong and honed her intelligence, but she is emotionally devastated. There is nothing to fear if you don't make yourself emotionally vulnerable. James has spent the last five years helping to build up a colony of survivors. He believes in the small town they have populated and its mission to save humanity from extinction. He and his small team of men find scattered people and bring them in. Over the last two centuries, women have fought for and won more and more rights, gaining equality with men. Society, law, and technology bolsters and enforces these rights, but now they are gone. Women's equality with men is over. There are just too few of them. They aren't lesser but greater, more important, more valuable than men. Men are expendable. Men can stay outside alone if they like, but all women must be brought inside the safety of the Colony and properly taken care of. James has been searching the area Leah lives in. Her time of solitude is up. Leah sparks something in James he's never felt before. He's not letting this one get away, certainly not twice. Warning: Contains sex, some violence, occasional foul language, and adult issues. Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Post-apocalyptic, Dark romance Length: 84,468 words This book has been published on Amazon. The first ten chapters will be updated to what you get in the published novel and will remain here, so you can try before you buy.