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The Quite Engine of the World
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 28 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.36 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The city is peaceful.
The machine is working.
Something has started to remember.
For generations, the city has enjoyed perfect calm. No riots. No paralyzing grief. No emotional extremes. The reason lies underground, where a colossal machine quietly removes the most painful memories from its citizens-turning trauma into fuel and silence into order.
Elias Thorne helps run that machine.
As a senior clerk in the Department of Unnamed Functions, Elias has spent his life ensuring the Engine never stops. But when strange sensory glitches ripple through the system-and a woman appears who remembers a past he was erased from-Elias realizes the truth is leaking back into the world.
Memories don't disappear.
They accumulate.
As buried grief resurfaces across the city, Elias must choose between restoring manufactured peace or allowing millions to feel what they were never meant to remember. The closer he gets to the heart of the Engine, the clearer it becomes: the city's stability depends on forgetting-but survival may depend on remembering.
The Quiet Engine of the World is a haunting blend of speculative science fiction and emotional thriller, exploring love, loss, and the price of a world without pain.
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