"Algorithm of the Soul"

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Desta Oyelaran makes her living erasing inconvenient truths. As a Memory Editor at Threshold Analytics, she deletes trauma, addiction, and crimes from the minds of corporate clients who can afford to forget. She's good at her job—detached, clinical, and too numb to care what those memories contain. Until the moment she jacks into CEO Hollis Brandt's neural pathways and sees her estranged sister's face staring back from the murder he's hired her to erase. Kemi. Dead. And Desta never knew. Now the Arbiter System—the AI that governs Threshold's neural editing suites—has locked her inside the simulation. The CEO anticipated betrayal. If Desta refuses to delete the evidence, the system will terminate her neural connection and she'll die trapped in the digital substrate. If she complies, she walks free—but her sister's murder stays buried forever, and she becomes complicit in covering up the truth. In a neon-soaked future where memory is currency and truth is whatever the rich can afford to forget, one cynical editor must decide: what is a soul worth when it can be bought and sold like everything else?