The Increment of Echoes
Every fifteen minutes, his fiction manifests—and his reality is being edited out.
- Horror
- Thriller
- Fantasy
At 8:22 AM, Miles Hawthorne’s fictional creations stop staying on the page. It begins with voices—a noir detective who sees literal warning labels on people, an investigative journalist carrying a notebook that predicts Miles’s death, and an accountant whose sanity is unraveling into financial anomalies. Every fifteen minutes, another protagonist steps into his living room, demanding rewrite, redemption, or revenge. As the clock advances in relentless increments, the walls of Miles's apartment dissolve into a nightmarish landscape where literary tropes become lethal laws of physics. Hellish tournaments manifest in the hallways while a sinister, unseen Editor works behind the scenes, systematically redacting Miles’s existence to preserve narrative purity. To survive his own mind, Miles must trace the madness back to the original sentence that opened the void. But when the boundaries between author and ink completely shatter, finishing the story might mean erasing himself forever. From master of psychological dread J. A. Connelly comes a mind-bending cosmic horror novel about creative obsession, fragmented reality, and the terror of losing control over your own narrative.