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Gridfall: Tales from the Tunnels
The world ended on November 8th, 2019. Chicago kept running anyway.
By 2029, the city is a machine that refuses to die—a vast maze of concrete canyons and sealed corridors, powered by the Grid, an AI infrastructure system built to manage everything humans once took for air, electricity, transit, access.
Now, the Grid doesn’t serve the people inside Chicago.
It controls them.
Morgan Deets, a 32-year-old urban planner who knows Chicago’s hidden infrastructure better than its skyline, discovers a possible route out—an old continuity feed that could bypass the barricaded exits and lead southeast toward Sherwood Forest, Indiana, where his brother might still be alive.
But leaving a city like Chicago is not a matter of walking away.
The deeper Morgan goes, the more the city reacts like a living body—tightening, watching, sealing wounds. Factions fight over the Grid’s “organs,” turning power stations into kingdoms and surveillance districts into hunting grounds. Every door is a decision. Every breath is policy.
Morgan’s only chance is to move through the city’s ribs and veins with a fragile team of
Elena Ramirez, an ex-paramedic who keeps people alive when the world says they aren’t worth the cost.
Darius “Dare” Thompson, an ex-firefighter whose protection is blunt, violent when necessary, and rarely gentle.
Lena Chen, a young hacker who can make locked systems flinch—if they don’t break her first.
Father Gabriel, a priest whose shaken faith becomes something a moral pulse in a city that has learned to charge for mercy.
Gridfall is a tense, atmospheric survival thriller about infrastructure as territory, systems as weapons, and the price of escaping a city that remembers everything.
By 2029, the city is a machine that refuses to die—a vast maze of concrete canyons and sealed corridors, powered by the Grid, an AI infrastructure system built to manage everything humans once took for air, electricity, transit, access.
Now, the Grid doesn’t serve the people inside Chicago.
It controls them.
Morgan Deets, a 32-year-old urban planner who knows Chicago’s hidden infrastructure better than its skyline, discovers a possible route out—an old continuity feed that could bypass the barricaded exits and lead southeast toward Sherwood Forest, Indiana, where his brother might still be alive.
But leaving a city like Chicago is not a matter of walking away.
The deeper Morgan goes, the more the city reacts like a living body—tightening, watching, sealing wounds. Factions fight over the Grid’s “organs,” turning power stations into kingdoms and surveillance districts into hunting grounds. Every door is a decision. Every breath is policy.
Morgan’s only chance is to move through the city’s ribs and veins with a fragile team of
Elena Ramirez, an ex-paramedic who keeps people alive when the world says they aren’t worth the cost.
Darius “Dare” Thompson, an ex-firefighter whose protection is blunt, violent when necessary, and rarely gentle.
Lena Chen, a young hacker who can make locked systems flinch—if they don’t break her first.
Father Gabriel, a priest whose shaken faith becomes something a moral pulse in a city that has learned to charge for mercy.
Gridfall is a tense, atmospheric survival thriller about infrastructure as territory, systems as weapons, and the price of escaping a city that remembers everything.
217 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2025
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