Story By ian matala
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The Tri-State Anomaly
Updated at Aug 11, 2025, 20:53
The Tri-State Anomaly is the story of Elias Thorne, a disillusioned cartographer from the Alpha Reality who discovers a way to travel to a utopian Beta Reality. In Beta, he has a perfect life, but his presence destabilizes both worlds, creating mysterious "glitches." He soon learns that he is caught in the middle of a conflict between two other travelers: Kenji Tanaka, who is from a dying third reality known as Gamma, and Leo Finch, who is from Beta and wants to escape to Alpha. The plot's central twist is that Kenji is using the travel components—a map, a pen, and special ink—to siphon energy from Beta to save Gamma, and Leo's destructive actions are unknowingly providing that energy. Elias must then choose between his ideal life in Beta and saving his own reality from being sacrificed.
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Uninvolved Observer
Updated at Aug 11, 2025, 03:25
Uninvolved Observer is a character-driven novel following Haruto Kanzaki, the detached observer, finds himself navigating the conflicting personalities of the council's perfect but insecure president, Aoi Miyamura; the financially-driven and scowling treasurer, Riku Tanaka; and the quiet, empathetic secretary, Yuna Sakamoto. As he is pulled into their personal struggles and conflicts, Haruto must confront his own apathetic worldview and discover that getting involved, while messy and complicated, might be the only way to truly live.
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