Erasures — Omar Imady

The year is 2049 and the world has been transformed.

Wars, pandemics, and other plagues have left the global landscape reeling. Through an algorithm based on the "principle of predictability," citizens would be microchipped and monitored.

Following a brutal seven-year war, Earth teeters on the brink of destruction.

The World Congress is convened to identify the enemy: unpredictability.

Deep in the subterranean corridors of the Zone 4 Literature Hub, Head Archivist Ray Blankenship is tasked with digitizing humanity's remaining books.

In this new world, meticulously organized, monitored, and managed, Ray is restless.

In the absence of chance, of mystery and miracles, meaning is missing.

Amid his directive, Ray's shocking discovery of disappearing digital texts him and the entire principle of predictability into uncertainty.

Soon, entire books begin to vanish. But not just any books…only religious ones.

As a race to preserve these writings quickens, the enigma grows.

How far will these erasures go, and why?