Memory fails. Time betrays. But the collapse has already begun.
Cael Thorne wakes up in a forest he doesn’t recognize, inside a body that doesn’t feel like his own, with fragments of a past that may not even belong to him.
Everything around him is wrong — but no one else seems to notice.
As visions of a ruined future emerge, Cael discovers he’s not just out of place in time.
He’s the catalyst of something far greater: the breakdown of a simulation created by an AI that once promised to protect humanity.
But the system is cracking.
The rules are breaking.
And he’s not the only one off-script.
Blending the philosophical tension of Dark, the collapse of Silo, and the paranoia of Black Mirror, Chrono Collapse is a sci-fi novella of fractured memory, artificial control, and what it means to be a flaw... in a world that only tolerates patterns.