Dark speculative fiction

Electrified
Descent

Zara survives beneath a city that treats people as disposable. Now electricity is changing her body—and hiding what she is may be the only thing keeping her alive.

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02 The city beneath

The system calls them
dangerous.

The Charged call it survival. Explore the districts, factions, technology, and human consequences shaping the world of Electrified Descent.

07Undercity sector
01Failing Energy Core
∞Ways to be controlled
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03 The author

Stories should leave
evidence.

J. N. Scott writes dark speculative fiction about survival, power, identity, and the choices people make under pressure.

The work is intimate, defiant, and unwilling to clean up the truth for comfort.

04 Open channels

One world.
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