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The Oxygen Debt
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a future that looks disturbingly like our present, the sky remains blue-but breathing is no longer free.
In The Oxygen Debt, oxygen production has been privatized, regulated, and quietly weaponized. Entire districts fall into air debt, bound by contracts signed generations earlier. Those who cannot pay do not die in chaos or fire-they suffocate slowly, legally, and politely, beneath calm announcements urging them to remain calm.
Mara Halden is one of millions born into inherited atmospheric liability. As restrictions tighten, riots erupt, children are trained to ration emotion, and death becomes a scheduled administrative event. But when the system introduces the Final Inhalation Clause-a contractual mercy that grants one perfect breath before permanent oxygen suspension-Mara forces the world to see what has been hidden behind policy language and corporate kindness.
Blending gothic atmosphere with psychological eco-horror, The Oxygen Debt is a chilling examination of commodified survival, bureaucratic violence, and what happens when life itself becomes a line item. This is not a story about a distant apocalypse-it is about a future built quietly, legally, and efficiently, one controlled breath at a time.
Terrifying, intimate, and unforgettable, The Oxygen Debt will leave readers questioning who owns the air-and what they would risk to reclaim it.
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