THE STATIC OF ABSENCE: Grief is a frequency.
Release Date: Friday, June 27th, 2025
Pages: 53 pages
In 'The Static of Absence,' astrophysicist Julian Croft builds a machine to track the echoes of his missing wife, uncovering a dark conspiracy that threatens his life as he seeks justice for her disappearance.
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What if grief was a signal you could track?
Two years after his wife, the brilliant journalist Anna, vanished into the Atacama Desert, astrophysicist Julian Croft has sacrificed everything to answer one impossible question. Convinced that a life leaves a measurable echo in the universe, he builds a machine to listen to the silence she left behind.
He finds her. A faint, pure signal—the static of her absence. But his discovery unearths something else: a second, more recent signal nearby. A jagged, violent scream that proves the official story of an "accidental death" is a lie.
Julian has stumbled upon a technology that can witness the perfect crime. Now, he's being hunted by the powerful, shadowy architects of that crime—a corporation that will do anything to protect its secrets. They want his machine, and they want his silence.
Guided by a trail of breadcrumbs Anna left behind, Julian and a cynical desert guide are pulled deeper into a conspiracy where the only way to find justice for the dead is to avoid becoming the next ghost in the machine. But the closer he gets to the truth of Anna's fate, the more he realizes his enemies haven't just been hunting him. They've been leading him.
Two years after his wife, the brilliant journalist Anna, vanished into the Atacama Desert, astrophysicist Julian Croft has sacrificed everything to answer one impossible question. Convinced that a life leaves a measurable echo in the universe, he builds a machine to listen to the silence she left behind.
He finds her. A faint, pure signal—the static of her absence. But his discovery unearths something else: a second, more recent signal nearby. A jagged, violent scream that proves the official story of an "accidental death" is a lie.
Julian has stumbled upon a technology that can witness the perfect crime. Now, he's being hunted by the powerful, shadowy architects of that crime—a corporation that will do anything to protect its secrets. They want his machine, and they want his silence.
Guided by a trail of breadcrumbs Anna left behind, Julian and a cynical desert guide are pulled deeper into a conspiracy where the only way to find justice for the dead is to avoid becoming the next ghost in the machine. But the closer he gets to the truth of Anna's fate, the more he realizes his enemies haven't just been hunting him. They've been leading him.