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AUGUST 9 2025●Writing
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Today I selected the title for the upcoming work of mine that I am working through in my bachelor's studies.

When a fleet signal specialist intercepts a transmission that shouldn't exist, a machine-scarred skeptic, a devout believer, and the specialist himself are forced into uneasy cooperation as the fleet's intelligence director races to erase it before it shatters the fragile order holding the last sixteen ships between the stars.

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Now, to get back to writing it before it boils my brain.

Joseph Brindley

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