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The Original Pulse

Release Date: Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Pages: 49 pages
In 'The Original Pulse' by Noureddine Bedri, a boy born without a soul discovers his encoded connection to a powerful intelligence in a dystopian city where souls are harvested to fuel digital infrastructure.

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It is a dark science fiction set in Illarion, a captivating city floating above ethereal oceans, where souls are harvested and converted into code to power digital infrastructure. In this world where magic and programming have blended into a deadly art known as psychic programming, each spell costs a fragment of a human soul, often stolen from the oppressed underclass.

At the heart of this dystopia is Kyle Arryn, a boy born without a soul—an impossibility in a system built on psychic circuits. Hunted, feared, and studied, Kyle discovers a buried truth: his soul was never lost—it was previously encoded at the heart of the city as a security mechanism, linked to a latent power known as the Original Pulse, an ancient ethereal intelligence capable of rewriting or erasing existence altogether.

Alongside Lyanna Forge, a rogue hacker who speaks the language of the lost digital soul, and Sin Ceres, a soul-freeing nun turned cyberpunk rebel, Kyle must choose between awakening a new world or destroying it altogether. As the trio confronts soul-harvesting corporations, self-aware software, and a city that may itself be alive, the line between reality and programming blurs.

This is a story of rebellion and redemption and what it means to be truly alive in a world where identity, power, and consciousness are for sale.