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Cryptoamnesia: Chapter 3 – The Echo of Absence: A Fragmented Memory. A Familiar Stranger. A Truth Too Dangerous to Forget. (Cryptoamnesia
Ethan wakes in a sterile room with no memory, no past, and a message pulsing on the TIME SYNC COMPLETE.
Nothing feels real. Not the room. Not his name. Not even his reflection.
But something’s wrong beneath the surface—fragments of memory, slivers of déjà vu, whispers of lives he doesn’t remember living. A data chip. A photo of a woman he doesn’t recognize. A connection to a technology called ChronoSync—and a system that doesn’t just erase memories… it replaces them.
As he spirals deeper, a name Sierra Vale. She knows what happened. She’s been waiting. And with her comes another—Dr. Adrian Kai, a neuroscientist with secrets of his own.
What Ethan uncovers is more than a glitch in his reality. It’s a deliberate design.
He hasn’t just been wiped—he’s been repurposed.
Rewritten. Reused.
And he might not be the only one.
Now, Ethan must confront a devastating
If your mind has been reprogrammed to believe a lie… would you ever know the truth?
Nothing feels real. Not the room. Not his name. Not even his reflection.
But something’s wrong beneath the surface—fragments of memory, slivers of déjà vu, whispers of lives he doesn’t remember living. A data chip. A photo of a woman he doesn’t recognize. A connection to a technology called ChronoSync—and a system that doesn’t just erase memories… it replaces them.
As he spirals deeper, a name Sierra Vale. She knows what happened. She’s been waiting. And with her comes another—Dr. Adrian Kai, a neuroscientist with secrets of his own.
What Ethan uncovers is more than a glitch in his reality. It’s a deliberate design.
He hasn’t just been wiped—he’s been repurposed.
Rewritten. Reused.
And he might not be the only one.
Now, Ethan must confront a devastating
If your mind has been reprogrammed to believe a lie… would you ever know the truth?
22 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2025
About the author
David A. Lyons
5 books1 followerI 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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