Aaron Whitlock

Distance used to mean safety. Eli Turner has spent his life on the family farm, believing that land, hard work, and isolation could protect what mattered most. But when cities begin collapsing under the weight of a fast-spreading and unexplained illness, the illusion of rural safety begins to fracture. Hospitals overflow. Communications fail. Evacuations spread across the Midwest. And reports emerge of the infected behaving in ways that defy explanation. As neighbors vanish, supplies disappear, and fear replaces routine, Eli and his family must transform their quiet farm into a last line of defense. Every fence becomes a boundary between survival and chaos. Every decision carries irreversible consequences. But the greatest danger isn't the world falling apart beyond their fields. It's the realization that whatever is coming is already closer than they think. The Last Fence Standing is a tense rural survival thriller exploring family, isolation, and the terrifying moment when distance stops protecting you.

Grace Marlow knows two things with absolute certainty: data never lies - and people sometimes do. As a senior analyst working the National Missing Persons Database, she's trained to find anomalies, track inconsistencies, and repair corrupted records. But nothing prepares her for the night 3,847 impossible entries appear out of nowhere. Each case is complete. Detailed. Perfectly formatted. And every single person listed… never existed. When Grace tries to report the anomaly, the system shuts her out. Photographs shift when she looks at them. Emails refuse to send. And the more she investigates, the more one horrifying truth becomes clear: The database is observing her back. And it's editing reality. As Grace discovers multiple versions of herself—iterations with scars she doesn't remember, futures she hasn't lived, and fates she refuses to accept - she's forced into a conspiracy that blurs the line between human identity, digital oversight, and the terrifying power of self-modifying systems. If she can't outrun the next version of herself, she'll become what the database has already predicted: NOT FOUND. A mind-bending techno-thriller for fans of Black Mirror, Recursion, and Blake Crouch, 404: NOT FOUND explores the fragility of memory, the terror of self-erasing systems, and the future no one is prepared for.