Hikikomori: The Red Thread

A haunting sci-fi love story where memory lies—but love remembers everything.J.B. Halden

Mature

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.

Memory

Psychological

Mystery

Healing

Supernatural

Slow Burn

Friends to Lovers

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.3 (3)

GenreScience Fiction, Romance

Length2 hrs 51 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 22, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1Hikikomori: The Red Thread

15Chapter Twelve: Fracture

2Dedication

16Chapter Thirteen: The Hallway Dream

3Author’s Note

17Chapter Fourteen: The Observation Log

4Chapter One: The Shape of Stillness

18Chapter Fifteen: The Second Touch

5Chapter Two: Stranger/Familiar

19Chapter Sixteen: Terminal Static

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6Chapter Three: The Sound of VHS

20Chapter Seventeen: The Reveal

7Chapter Four: The Garden

21Chapter Eighteen: Her Mother’s Final Words

8Chapter Five: Red Strings

22Chapter Nineteen: Ren's Truth

9Chapter Six: Message Board Ghosts

23Chapter Twenty: Systems Corrupting

10Chapter Seven: The Drawing with Two Faces

24Chapter Twenty-One: The Archive Room

11Chapter Eight: The Passport

25Chapter Twenty-Two: The Choice

12Chapter Nine: Static Dreams

26Chapter Twenty-Three: The Note

13Chapter Ten: Watching Lain

27Chapter Twenty-Four: Stillness

14Chapter Eleven: Phase One

28Prologue: Remember Me

About the author

J.B. Halden

J.B. Halden writes genre-bending fiction that blends sci-fi, romance, and psychological suspense. Fascinated by memory and identity, Halden explores what it means to be human—especially when reality begins to blur. Hikikomori: The Red Thread is the first novella in The Red Thread Sequence. View all by J.B. Halden