The Pact, the Protocol, and the Dead Who Speak: Seven Tales Where Truth Is Hacked, Love Is Lethal, and Secrets Refuse to Die

A simple agreement between neighbors unravels into a haunting spiral of betrayal. A quiet town masks venomous secrets no one dares admit. A countdown ticks louder with each wish granted, forcing one woman to confront what she's truly borrowed. In the crumbling sectors of a dystopian city, a rogue agent must choose between a corrupt system and the glitching code that just might save her.

A forbidden update slips through digital cracks, waking ghosts not just from servers but from memory itself. A marriage built on a contract spirals into posthumous horror, where love and vengeance blur into twisted devotion. And in a surveillance state silencing its past, a protester's cry echoes back through an AI that refuses to forget.

These seven stories pierce through emotional veils, cracking open hidden truths, technological betrayals, and the violent beauty of the human will. With each page, love turns lethal, machines remember more than they should, and silence becomes the loudest scream.

How do you stop a story that's already written itself in blood, code, and confession?