Fortune Cookies

They Don’t Predict Your Future. They Program It.

De: Marko Vovk

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A slip of paper can bend a life. A hidden ledger records every push in this contemporary dystopian thriller set in a ruthless near‑future world.

First it was voices on phones. Then headlines, screens, and hashtags. Now the program rides in cheap white cookies dropped beside plastic cutlery, whispering the one line you were already afraid to hear. A lonely man hears, “Today, you will be heard,” and walks back into a crowded restaurant with a gun. An exhausted nurse reads, “No one will listen until you make them,” and tucks the slip against her heart. An older woman, alone with a takeaway box and a euthanasia debate on TV, unfolds permission to disappear.

They all think it’s random. It isn’t.

Somewhere far from the cameras, a small group keeps a handwritten ledger. They don’t care which party is in power or which logo is on the building. They track curves: births, deaths, chemicals, pills, screens, land, and law. When fear is needed, fortunes nudge men toward crowded rooms. When compliance is needed, fortunes tell tired people they’re a burden. When it’s time to thin the herd quietly, food, water, and medicine do the work. This political conspiracy thriller and cli‑fi–flavored social suspense novel shows how control hides in plain sight.

Only one man starts to see the pattern.

He covers his walls with fortunes, screenshots, and clippings. Three gray digits keep repeating in the corners of the slips. Trails run from shootings to medical “choice,” from contaminated water and climate‑driven disasters to fertility collapse, from smart‑city “resilience towers” to something older carved in stone under Antarctic ice. As this obsession‑driven investigator builds his own ledger, the people behind the program notice—and they do not tolerate curiosity for long.

Fortune Cookies is an adult literary dystopia and speculative fiction story about how control really works: not with one villain and one switch, but with millions of tiny pushes that feel like your own idea. It’s for readers who like their fiction uncomfortably close to the news, who have wondered whether food, water, medicine, media, and “safety” are all running on the same script.

If you’re ready for a novel that feels less like prediction and more like explanation, add Fortune Cookies to your cart and start reading tonight.