The Echo Chamber of Seth

In the aftermath of a landmark ruling against elite university admissions, a socially invisible data analyst named Caleb Voss becomes dangerously obsessed with the "Meritocracy Reaper," a serial killer targeting beneficiaries of the old system. As Caleb meticulously recreates the killer's logic in his diary, the boundaries between his meticulous research and actual homicidal actions dissolve, leading him down a path where his own memory of a childhood institutional betrayal becomes the most unreliable piece of evidence of all. The story explores how memory lies, and the truths we cling to are merely illusions stitched together from fractured shards of logic.