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Reign of Spectacle

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / March 6, 2025 / 2025, authoritarian, chaos, Dystopian, Dystopian fiction, media manipulation, modern dictatorship, political fiction, political thriller, power, propaganda, reality television, resistance, spectacle, surveillance, tyranny

Chairman rules not through policy but through spectacle. His government is a never-ending reality show where cabinet meetings are broadcast live, foreign diplomacy is determined by ratings, and loyalty is the only currency that matters. As telescreens beam his face into every home, citizens watch in fearful fascination as he makes and breaks alliances on whim, rewards sycophants, and punishes dissenters with public humiliation. But beneath the carefully orchestrated chaos, a resistance is brewing.

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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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