Scatters the Sand

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New Adult / Adult Crossover

Speculative Thriller: Psychologically-driven
Science Fiction: Near-Future, Soft
Themes: Memory, Identity, Trauma, Consciousness, Power Dynamics, Ethics of Technology
Word Count: 77,000

What if a technology that helps people survive trauma also makes them ideal subjects for experiments that push the limits of human perception?

Callen Hawthorne needs money. He finds a place that pays him to experience a criminal’s Echo — a memory recording of a crime. But the Echo disrupts an implant Callen had been given in childhood to help him process trauma, and now he’s forced to experience a past he wasn’t meant to remember. 

Tech billionaire Silas Barlowe discovers Callen has an implant, and pressures him into AI-driven experiments on perception and consciousness. While Callen is connected to Silas’s AI system, a former test subject, Tim Sobol, hacks the AI to push it toward starting a global war.

As Callen learns to accept his childhood memories while defending himself from Silas and Sobol, his shifting perspective on reality will either break him or set him free.

Completed manuscript; currently seeking representation.