Echo Protocol: An Echo Project Short Story (The Echoverse)

By Tal Stineman

He disappeared in 1986. The world moved on. The Fold did not. Dane Ashford was fifteen when he first blinked--vanishing through space in a burst of green light. By the time he was eighteen, he was the military's best-kept secret. A weapon in a war no one understood. A prisoner of his own father. Then came the mission that went wrong. The Fold took him. Now, trapped in a place where time means nothing and memory hurts, Dane is unraveling. Thoughts fragment. Reality blurs. But something stirs in the dark--something new. Something waiting . And when a woman named Maria blinks into the Fold, carrying an unborn child who sees Dane for what he really is... everything changes. This is the story of how a boy became a ghost. How a ghost became a voice. How a voice became Echo . Echo Protocol is a queer science fiction short story of survival, transformation, and the slow, terrifying loss of self. A prequel to Blink , it offers a harrowing look into what happens when you're lost in the in-between--and what you might become when you finally break through.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6CW26RD
• ISBN13: 9798281292498
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"