Dr. Sarah Chen pressed her palm against the cold observatory glass, watching Jupiter's storms churn in the distance. Three months since the Flare. Three months since every hard drive, every server, every backup had burned to static. The world's memory, gone. But someone out there had been watching. Someone had kept records. The signal came through on analog equipment nobody remembered existed, and it promised everything humanity had lost. Sarah read the decoded message again, her hands trembling: "Your history remains. Come claim it. Terms apply."
Billy Williams is a German-born storyteller with a fascination for the fragile threads connecting memory, history, and the future. In his twenties, he has already carved a voice that blends sharp imagination with a deep sense of humanity.View all by Billy Williams