Parallel
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What if your dreams werenât just dreamsâbut 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 victimâhe 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 youâve always feared becomes the only reality, do you fight to returnâor accept that youâve 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.
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âThis was never a passion. It was a quiet becoming.â
Writing, for me, wasnât 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 couldnât say out loud.
What I write isnât fictionâitâs memory threaded through metaphor. Itâs the heart doing what the voice never could. Each story in this book is a breath I didnât know I was holding. Each line, a part of me I once left behind.
I donât write because I must. I write because somehowâwriting remembers me.
