Severed.

A Novel

In a world governed by an all-seeing Network, recognition is the condition for existence. Those who fall outside its patterns are not punished or imprisoned, they are severed. Their names fade. Their histories collapse. Their lives are quietly withdrawn from the record. What remains is not death as execution but death as disappearance.

Severed. follows one such erasure through crystalline cities, bureaucratic rituals and acts of attention that refuse to vanish. Blending speculative fiction with theological inquiry, the novel interrogates what power demands, what faith resists and what it means to bear witness when memory itself is under threat. This is not a story about the future. It is a mirror held to the present and to the systems that decide who is seen, who is named and who is allowed to remain.