The Vanishing Point: The Arithmetic of Absence

The Vanishing Point

The Arithmetic of Absence

Liora Landry counts everything.

Pedestrians at intersections. Timing intervals. Small patterns most people never notice.

Then the numbers stop matching.

A single discrepancy-off by one-becomes an obsession when she discovers others documenting the same impossible events: moments where sound compresses, movement lags, and people vanish without explanation.

No one remembers what is missing.

No one except her.

As the anomalies multiply, Liora is drawn into a hidden network of observers tracking a pattern buried beneath reality itself. What begins as a missing count becomes evidence of something far larger-something silently correcting the world around them.

Every correction leaves fewer witnesses behind.

And somewhere beyond the edge of memory, something is waiting.

The Vanishing Point: The Arithmetic of Absence is a suspenseful blend of speculative fiction, mystery, and cosmic unease that explores perception, memory, and the terrifying possibility that reality is far less stable than it appears.