Bohdan monitors war through a screen-until something in the footage starts watching back.
A woman appears in places the system cannot explain: sites of violence, buried records, forgotten deaths. She is not a glitch. She is not alive.
She is a Mavka-formed from what the war tried to erase.
As Bohdan follows her, he uncovers a hidden network of atrocities and becomes the bridge that allows her to manifest beyond the screen. What follows is not revenge, but revelation: soldiers frozen mid-action, commanders forced to confront the truth, and a system built on distance collapsing under the weight of what it can no longer hide.
But the deeper Bohdan goes, the less he remains separate from what he sees.
Because witnessing is not passive.
And once you see clearly-
you become part of it.
URBAN WOUNDS is a literary supernatural war novel about memory, accountability, and the cost of seeing clearly in a world built on what it refuses to acknowledge.
For readers of Annihilation, The City We Became, and Mexican Gothic.