The Norm

By Marie-Léandre Verdol

What if language could erase you quietly?

mile begins writing without knowing why.
Fragments appear on his screen during the night - sentences he does not remember typing, descriptions of events that have not yet happened.

At first, he believes exhaustion is distorting his memory.
But the text keeps expanding.

The manuscript seems to anticipate reality.
Conversations shift. Memories fracture.
People around him begin to speak with the same neutral precision, as if an invisible structure were rewriting them from within.

As mile investigates the origin of the document, he discovers that the real danger is not death, violence, or madness.

It is compliance.

THE NORM is a psychological and speculative novel where identity slowly dissolves inside a system that no longer needs individuals - only perfectly stable versions of them.

Some disappear.
Others adapt.

And some become indistinguishable from the process itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H341521V
• ISBN13: 9798198003965
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"