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Ghosts in Static

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Reads 453
Votes 20
Parts 16
Time 1h 45m

Mature

"Everyone he cared about was gone-stolen by a city that chased the dead."

Detective Jonah Cole wakes up a blank slate in the city of Veridian. His memory is wiped clean, and Nadia Vega, the partner he can't remember, is his only guide into a conspiracy that runs deeper than his own missing past.

Their target: Silas Vale, the city's techno-messiah, whose company MemGen sold the world the MemChip-the power to add, delete, and rewrite a life.

Vale's digital church, Omega, promises salvation by tithing memories. But the truth is a nightmare of consciousness hacks, killings, and ghostly bleed-throughs that refuse to be silenced. To reclaim his identity, Cole must break the church of memory that runs his city.

But in a world built on editable lives, the thing calling itself salvation will fight like hell to keep its saints.

Teaser:
"They're always with you, Jonah. Just like me. None of us are ghosts. Just different forms of energy fighting to exist."

Updates: New chapters weekly • WIP: Comments & typo catches welcome • Follow me on insta @avs_author
[Content note: violence, strong language].
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Beneath the Neon Veil

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