Phrenium
Sam Goffin
Type: Beta project
Genre: Mystery, speculative fiction
Word count: 120,000
Warnings:Â Graphic violence, swearing
Jimmy Dodford’s dream job at the world’s most powerful company descends into a nightmare he can’t wake up from, as he uncovers their malignant secret and the shocking truth about his own past.
Jimmy is a reclusive nerd with a patchy memory. He arrives in Surrey with the dream of working for Citrus and their enigmatic founder, Francis Price. Soon Jimmy is flying. He makes friends, falls in love, and gains exposure to Citrus’s groundbreaking invention: a mind-altering earbud that unlocks the user’s subconscious mind. Everything is falling — a little too — neatly into place, until a seemingly chance encounter with a senior employee shatters his perception of Citrus, leaving him unable to trust those around him, and paranoid to the point of questioning his own past. As reality crumbles and lives are lost, Jimmy is faced with a choice: keep living the dream, or face a nightmare he can’t wake up from.
A novice writer from the East of England attempting to pursue a dream around the drudgery of a nine-to-five job!
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