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Chapter One: The Low Hum of Neo-Eden

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / March 5, 2025

Jade Zero, a retired cat burglar with cybernetic enhancements, tries to stay off the grid in Neo-Eden, a city of flickering neon and AI-controlled propaganda. But when she receives a cryptic message from an unknown contact and a call from Lieutenant Cassin about the brutal murder of an old associate, she’s pulled back into the shadows. As secrets unravel and danger looms, Jade must decide whether to walk away—or uncover a conspiracy that could change everything she thought she knew.

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Children of the Circle

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / March 4, 2025 / authoritarian rule, authoritarian schooling, Black Circle regime, Chairman's pledge, Christian nationalism, Christian Nationalist agenda, controlled youth, dystopian education, Dystopian fiction, education under fascism, forced loyalty, future dystopia, loss of free thought, political brainwashing, political thriller, propaganda, propaganda in schools, religious indoctrination, religious oppression, surveillance state

The Circle had replaced education with indoctrination, molding children into obedient servants while their parents, exhausted and compliant, looked on. The older generation—the faithful voting bloc—had long since dismissed any concerns. Their own children had grown up in a different time, so why should they care? Schools, social programs, the greater good—it was all “socialist nonsense” unless it served the Black Circle. And now, the next generation didn’t even know they were enslaved.

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The Architect of Power

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / February 28, 2025 / America isolated, authoritarian politics, dictatorship and control, dystopian leadership, foreign policy destruction, gangster tactics in government, narcissistic leadership, political corruption, ruthless leadership, strongman politics, the Chairman’s downfall

The Chairman’s so-called “negotiation” tactics were no different. If someone didn’t bow to his demands, he cut them off like a petulant child. If they refused to stroke his ego, he unleashed his rage in public, ensuring that their humiliation was as visible as possible.

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The Rights Protocol

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / February 28, 2025 / authoritarian legal tactics, Black Circle justice system, civil rights under authoritarian rule, controlling the narrative through law, dystopian court corruption, Dystopian fiction, dystopian legal system, fascism and the rule of law, how to deal with police in a dystopia, how to survive political arrests, legal rights in a police state, resisting oppression, surviving under dictatorship, the fall of civil liberties

Alex had always been the careful one. Before the world fell into the hands of the Black Circle, before the Chairman’s rule had become absolute, he had made sure Cora understood one fundamental truth: shut the fuck up and do not talk. Rights still existed on paper, but in practice, they were fleeting, conditional, a cruel joke in a system designed to break you the moment you stepped out of line.

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The Circle’s Justice

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / February 27, 2025 / abortion ban, authoritarian law, Christian nationalism, corporate power grab., corrupt judiciary, dystopian America, Dystopian fiction, elite immunity, fascist legal system, human rights rollback, judicial control, legal system collapse, LGBTQ rights erased, political show trials, Supreme Court corruption, weaponized courts

The judiciary was no longer a safeguard of justice—it was an instrument of control. The courts had been packed with Circle loyalists, judges who wore their allegiance like a badge of honor. Once, they had spoken of impartiality, of the sacred duty to uphold the law. Now, they overturned rights with the stroke of a pen, dismantling decades of progress in a matter of months.

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