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Name that Quote
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
America, 2035.
The factories are gone. The jobs are disappearing. The machines are taking over.
Twenty-four-year-old Stephan Greene spends his days wandering the streets of Silver Canyon, Colorado-a dying town where boarded-up storefronts outnumber thriving businesses and hope seems to be in shorter supply with every passing year. Ever since losing his job to automation, Stephan has found himself trapped between an uncertain future and a past he cannot stop longing for.
As unemployment, despair, and social decay spread through his community, Stephan struggles to answer a question that haunts millions of ordinary people in a rapidly changing world:
What is a man's purpose when society no longer seems to need him?
Plagued by disturbing dreams, economic hardship, and a growing sense of isolation, Stephan searches desperately for meaning amid the ruins of the American Dream. But when every institution that once offered stability appears to be crumbling, where can he turn for answers?
Part social commentary, part psychological drama, and part philosophical exploration, Name That Quote is a thought-provoking short story about technology, identity, faith, work, and the universal human need for purpose. For readers who enjoy reflective literary fiction, dystopian realism, and stories that wrestle with the deepest questions of modern life, this is a journey into the heart of a generation struggling to find its place in a world that has moved on without it.
In a society obsessed with influence, success, and endless entertainment, one young man must discover whether meaning can still be found when everything else has been lost.
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