Fissure

I cannot trust my senses. My humanity is compromised. There was no seismic event.

WITH ITS MEDIA CONTROLLED AND ITS BORDERS CLOSED, the United States has isolated itself from the rest of the world in the aftermath of the deadly Lightning pandemic. But when a cataclysm, even more mysterious than the Lightning, divides the nation into two incommunicable halves, the newly formed Department of Influence tries to control the fallout by controlling the narrative: the cataclysm never even happened.

An alcoholic haunted by his dead wife's ghost,

An ambitious painter capitalizing on the country's new nationalism,

A young runaway with strange powers,

Three destructive and dangerous siblings seeking liberation,

A pastor desperately searching for his lost faith,

Two lost souls communicating across infinity

The fates of these characters violently intertwine within the chaos as misinformation and deception reign supreme in a story of manipulation and the search for ultimate truth.

If such a thing even exists...