Ethan's alarm clock rang again. The same static-laced hum, the same flickering numbers. He slammed his hand on it. It read 6:59 — not 7:00. Odd. He blinked twice. Yesterday, it had said 7:00. Or had it?
He moved through his apartment, and everything was identical. But the light from the window was wrong. Too white. Sterile. The street outside was silent — no cars, no wind. Even the leaves on the trees were still.
Later that day, he walked past the park and saw a woman feeding pigeons. She smiled. He remembered her. He'd talked to her yesterday. Or had it been a dream? She smiled the same way. Said the same thing.
"You look lost."
"Not anymore," Ethan replied — but this time, the words tasted scripted.
That night, he wrote in a journal. Entry #23. Except there was no Entry #22. The notebook had gaps. Pages missing.
He began to test the loop. He spilled coffee on the floor. The next morning, it was gone. He wrote his name in the dust on the windowsill. The next day, it was wiped. ONIS was watching.
Fragment 041892: Roy-Node 2B Deployed
> Subject E-127 (Ethan Voss) displays recursive behavioral awareness.
> Containment Status: 83.6% Stable.
> Anomaly Type: Class-2 Narrative Echo
> Suggested Countermeasure: Recalibration through inserted companion character.
> Deploying asset: Roy-Node 2B.
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Life Code: A Simulation
Science Fiction(This is still in the rough draft stages but I wanted to get it out there and see what people other than my friends think of it) What if everything you remembered was rewritten? And what if the one rewriting it was watching you sleep? Ethan Carter a...
