The Forgetting Room

By Tim North

In a city where the past is a currency, the truth is the only thing you can't afford.

Elias Thorne is a Memory Sifter. In a world where rent is paid with childhood nostalgia and addiction is fed by black-market trauma, his job is simple: extract, authenticate, and appraise. He knows the difference between a genuine first kiss and a synthetic forgery. Or at least, he thought he did.

When Elias discovers a "duplicate sorrow"-an identical autobiographical trauma present in two unrelated clients-he stumbles upon a mathematical impossibility. Memory is supposed to be unique. If it isn't, then the self is a lie.

Enter Mara, a "hollowed" seller running on static and borrowed time, trading pieces of her identity to survive. Together, they are pulled into the Mnemosyne Loop, a conspiracy that reveals the horrifying truth: reality is being overwritten, one purchased memory at a time.

As the boundary between organic recall and viral fabrication dissolves, Elias and Mara must navigate a dissolving city to find the "Zero Point." But in a world governed by consensus reality, how do you save the truth when the world has already voted to forget it?

Inside this Cyberpunk Thriller:
Immersive Mixed-Media Format: The narrative is woven together with transaction receipts, authentication logs, corporate memos, and corrupted data fragments.
Philosophical Sci-Fi: A cerebral journey exploring the liquidity of identity and the terrifying power of collective memory.
For Fans Of: Blade Runner, Black Mirror, and Blake Crouch's Dark Matter.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF1ZL34T
• ISBN13: 9798242626515
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"