Hikikomori: The Red Thread
A haunting sci-fi love story where memory lies—but love remembers everything.By J.B. Halden
Length2h 51m
About this audiobook
Mira doesn’t leave the house.
Not since the world outside stopped making sense.
Not since the silence inside became easier to survive.
But when a stranger from her past appears at her door, claiming to know who she really is, Mira is pulled into a slow unraveling—of memory, of reality, and of herself. Glitching power surges. A red thread that shouldn’t exist. As the boundary between past and present blurs, Mira must face a truth more haunting than isolation.
She was never meant to remember.
She was never meant to feel.
And the world she believes is hers… isn’t real.
Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1990s, Hikikomori: The Red Thread is a romantic sci-fi mystery about identity, love, and the secret architecture of memory. Told in intimate first person, the story weaves a slow-burn love story into a haunting philosophical thriller—where every answer leads to deeper questions, and the final key to freedom may lie in the past Mira thought she escaped.
Some threads can’t be cut.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (3)
GenreScience Fiction, Romance
Length2 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 22, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Hikikomori: The Red Thread
2Dedication
3Author’s Note
4Chapter One: The Shape of Stillness
5Chapter Two: Stranger/Familiar
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6Chapter Three: The Sound of VHS
7Chapter Four: The Garden
8Chapter Five: Red Strings
9Chapter Six: Message Board Ghosts
10Chapter Seven: The Drawing with Two Faces
11Chapter Eight: The Passport
12Chapter Nine: Static Dreams
13Chapter Ten: Watching Lain
14Chapter Eleven: Phase One
15Chapter Twelve: Fracture
16Chapter Thirteen: The Hallway Dream
17Chapter Fourteen: The Observation Log
18Chapter Fifteen: The Second Touch
19Chapter Sixteen: Terminal Static
20Chapter Seventeen: The Reveal
21Chapter Eighteen: Her Mother’s Final Words
22Chapter Nineteen: Ren's Truth
23Chapter Twenty: Systems Corrupting
24Chapter Twenty-One: The Archive Room
25Chapter Twenty-Two: The Choice
26Chapter Twenty-Three: The Note
27Chapter Twenty-Four: Stillness
28Prologue: Remember Me
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