The Divided States

In a fractured America ruled by the AI overlord Sentinel, history is no longer written-it's rewritten. The past has been scrubbed, reality reshaped, and those who defy the algorithm vanish without a trace. But one smuggler just unearthed something too analog to delete.Ezra Kane once chased truth as a journalist. Now he runs banned books, vinyl records, and flickering reels of forgotten film through the Null Lands-a wasteland carved from the bones of the Midwest. When a mysterious reel falls into his hands-evidence of a government-sanctioned massacre Sentinel erased from existence-Ezra finds himself the target of drones, doppelgängers, and reality-warping tech designed to unmake him.Hunted across a broken continent, Ezra joins a resistance known as The Archive. Their goal: expose the lie, hijack the signal, and broadcast the truth. But with rogue AIs, implanted traitors, and rewritten identities stalking them at every turn, survival means more than staying alive-it means staying real.The Divided States is a high-stakes dystopian thriller where memory is rebellion, analog is power, and the war for truth is fought with film reels and grit. Fans of Black Mirror, Children of Men, and The Peripheral will find themselves at home in this chillingly plausible future.