Novelette: Quantum Mirror — (Blurb)
Grief can trap you in the past. Genius can try to rewrite it.
After the devastating loss of his wife, renowned tech visionary Dr. Elias Marrow does the unthinkable: he walks away from his empire, handing control of his multibillion-dollar company to his daughter, Sylvie. While Sylvie struggles to step out of his shadow and navigate her own grief, Elias descends into the depths of his private lab — determined to answer the only question that matters to him now: What if?
What if she hadn’t died? What if he had made a different choice? What if there’s a version of their life where she still lives?
Using dangerously untested technology, Elias constructs the Quantum Mirror — a device that allows him to glimpse alternate versions of reality. But as he chases unborn ghosts across the possible past and futures, the boundary between reflection and reality blurs. Sylvie — desperate to reconnect with the man she calls dad — begins to fear that this obsession is likely to unravel what little they have left.
Quantum Mirror is a gripping and intimate tale of loss, obsession, and the fragile thread between past and future. A speculative story that asks: if you could see the lives you lost with your choices — could you ever stop looking?
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Novelette: Quantum Mirror (Part 1)
It was one of those nights that felt like a prelude to revelation—a hushed, electric stillness, heavy with the weight of some unspoken, unknowable shift. With the sense that the air itself had stiffened in warning, bracing for something primal and irrevocable that was about to strike. As if city itself was holding its breath, poised on the brink.