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Cryptoamnesia: Chapter 2 – A Time Once Lived (Cryptoamnesia
Chapter 2 – A Time Once Lived delves into the immaculate world crafted by Ethan Carter, CEO of Carter Industries, as he unveils the technological marvel ChronoSync—a neural interface that erases trauma and rewrites memory. The chapter opens with a chillingly perfect corporate lobby, where a sleek commercial for ChronoSync plays in the background, unnoticed by those already assimilated into its promise. Ethan, seen at the height of his power and vision, reflects on a future without suffering—where grief, PTSD, and emotional pain are obsolete.
But beneath the flawless surface, unease festers.
As he transitions from luxury to control, a glitch fractures reality. Ethan’s world—a polished construct of steel, light, and certainty—begins to falter. Dr. Evelyn Reed, sharp and unreadable, hints at deeper truths. And when time itself ruptures, Ethan awakens in a disjointed space, detached from memory, identity, and logic.
What begins as a triumph of innovation quickly spirals into an existential unraveling. ChronoSync, once seen as salvation, now hints at something The Loop. A phenomenon spreading through both code and consciousness, rewriting not just memory but the very meaning of human experience.
This chapter marks the first true descent into the central crisis of the Cryptoamnesia when the erasure of pain becomes the erosion of self.
But beneath the flawless surface, unease festers.
As he transitions from luxury to control, a glitch fractures reality. Ethan’s world—a polished construct of steel, light, and certainty—begins to falter. Dr. Evelyn Reed, sharp and unreadable, hints at deeper truths. And when time itself ruptures, Ethan awakens in a disjointed space, detached from memory, identity, and logic.
What begins as a triumph of innovation quickly spirals into an existential unraveling. ChronoSync, once seen as salvation, now hints at something The Loop. A phenomenon spreading through both code and consciousness, rewriting not just memory but the very meaning of human experience.
This chapter marks the first true descent into the central crisis of the Cryptoamnesia when the erasure of pain becomes the erosion of self.
14 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 13, 2025
About the author
David A. Lyons
5 books2 followersI write experimental literary fiction, and I publish it myself.
As founder of Vehemently Inked LLC, I make books for readers who want to be asked something, not handed everything: work that is precise, deliberate, and built to do something to you rather than simply be read.
My major work, Synchronization, was published September 2, 2026, and is available now in hardcover. It is not a novel written about an artificial intelligence; it is written as one. The narration boots inside the book; the reader becomes the final node. It is ergodic fiction: nonlinear, encoded, as much navigation as narration. Reading it is work, and that is the point.
I am also the author of The Epochs of Synchronization: Cryptoamnesia, Cryptoanomaly, and Cryptogenesis, each a distinct cognitive perspective on a single unraveling.
Before fiction, I spent years in business and sales, which taught me more than I expected about systems, persuasion, and the strange ways people process information. I design my own covers. I think in structure.
As founder of Vehemently Inked LLC, I make books for readers who want to be asked something, not handed everything: work that is precise, deliberate, and built to do something to you rather than simply be read.
My major work, Synchronization, was published September 2, 2026, and is available now in hardcover. It is not a novel written about an artificial intelligence; it is written as one. The narration boots inside the book; the reader becomes the final node. It is ergodic fiction: nonlinear, encoded, as much navigation as narration. Reading it is work, and that is the point.
I am also the author of The Epochs of Synchronization: Cryptoamnesia, Cryptoanomaly, and Cryptogenesis, each a distinct cognitive perspective on a single unraveling.
Before fiction, I spent years in business and sales, which taught me more than I expected about systems, persuasion, and the strange ways people process information. I design my own covers. I think in structure.
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