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The Flashbacks

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / January 31, 2025 / authoritarian government, censorship, checkpoints, digital resistance, Dystopian fiction, economic crisis, future war, political thriller, propaganda, social collapse, social credit system, surveillance state, The Black Circle, Unity Index

In The Flashbacks, Cora scrolls through old TikToks and news clips, reliving the slow collapse of society under the Black Circle’s rule. From the first checkpoints to the rising cost of food, the dismantling of social programs, and the chilling enforcement of the Unity Index, each memory is a reminder of how it all unraveled.

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