What if your dreams werenโt just dreamsโbut memories of another world calling you back?
Parallel follows a data analyst who wakes to find the sky burning and his city transformed into a nightmare he has seen since childhood. Towering beings patrol the ruins, harvesting humans into silence, while whispers in the shadows suggest he was never merely a victimโhe was chosen. As he searches for a way out, visions blur with reality, portals shimmer and vanish, and the line between human and other begins to fracture inside him.
Haunting and surreal, Parallel is a dystopian tale of memory, identity, and inevitability. It asks: when the dream youโve always feared becomes the only reality, do you fight to returnโor accept that youโve been home all along?
This story is part of an ongoing short story series of eBooks exploring moments of transformation, dislocation, and the fragile borders between worlds.
โThis was never a passion. It was a quiet becoming.โ
Writing, for me, wasnโt love at first sight. It was a stranger I met in silence. A presence that lingered when no one else stayed. Over time, it became a mirror to my feelings, a translator for thoughts I couldnโt say out loud.
What I write isnโt fictionโitโs memory threaded through metaphor. Itโs the heart doing what the voice never could. Each story in this book is a breath I didnโt know I was holding. Each line, a part of me I once left behind.
I donโt write because I must. I write because somehowโwriting remembers me.