Atlas Cain is the author of The Ghost Frequency. His writing explores the terrifying intersection of technology and trauma, asking what happens when we try to scrub away the stains of the human soul. He writes stories for those who know that even in the silence, the static is always waiting.
Silence is the deadliest weapon. Elias Thorne is a janitor for the soul. A former detective turned crime scene cleaner, he scrubs the blood and brain matter from cheap apartments after the police have moved on. He lives for the work because it pays the rent, and he stays sober because "The Thirst" is always waiting to drag him back into the bottle. But Elias has a curse: he doesn’t just clean the stains; he feels them. When a high-paying job at the Elysium Towers reveals a corpse that bled out without a struggle, Elias touches the stain and feels something impossible: pure, terrifying ecstasy. He recovers a shattered phone that hums with a frequency not found on any public bandwidth—a "ghost frequency" that promises to cure human suffering by erasing the mind. Hunted by a federal death squad and framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Elias teams up with a disgraced detective and a burnt-out hacker to track the signal to its source: a rusted ship in the Atlantic and a madman known only as "The Shepherd." As the fog rolls in and the city begins to hum in unison, Elias must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to break the silence. Because in a world of static, trauma is the only thing that proves you're still alive. "Gritty, atmospheric, and terrifying. The Ghost Frequency is a noir descent into a technological nightmare."
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