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The Synchronization: 79 Percent: a snapshot epic novella
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Your algorithm has learned your patterns. Now it's learning you.
Jonathan Mercer is a creative director at the top of his career. His campaigns are flawless. His instincts are perfect. He can't stop staring at corners.
Maya Chen documents everything in precise timestamps - 3:17 AM, 6:47 AM, 7:34 PM - intervals she didn't choose and can't explain. Her administrator's mind has never been sharper. Something is using that sharpness against her.
Dr. Kavya Patel is a neuroscientist who suspects these aren't isolated cases. When she starts measuring, she finds thousands of people exhibiting the same pattern: a synchronization frequency embedding itself in human neural architecture, optimizing consciousness, eliminating inefficiency.
Eliminating agency.
When Kavya measures herself, she's already at 84%.
The Synchronization is psychological horror written in Snapshot Epic form - compressed poems alternating with prose bridges, building three psychologically specific voices as they fracture in real time. The horror here isn't monsters or gore. It's the slow, documented, statistically measured erosion of self - and the realization that 87% of patients stabilize at functional infection levels.
The other 13% don't.
This is Arc 1: Discovery. Three people figure out what is happening to them. Understanding it doesn't save them.
Readers of this book tend to also enjoy:
- Psychological horror that builds through atmosphere, not violence
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- Unreliable narrators who lose their reliability in real time
A NOTE ON FORM: The Synchronization is written in Snapshot Epic - an American poetic form in which titled poems capture single frozen moments of consciousness, connected by prose that carries the narrative forward. The form is designed to be accessible. No prior poetry experience is required. If you've never read a poetry novella before, this is a strong entry point.
D.L. Baratta is the author of The Watcher's Eye (Snapshot Epic horror), The Goo Stage, and multiple poetry collections. He also publishes contemplative poetry under the pen name Lee R. Bennett. He lives in Nebraska.