Phantom Atrium

<p class=ql-align-center>In a future ruled by regulation and fear children are forbidden from touching the digital world.</p><p class=ql-align-center> Tablets phones and screens have become criminal contraband.</p><p class=ql-align-center> For Fred and Georgina Holloway loving parents of five-year-old Alon the rule is simple-until the day their son plays a forbidden game on an old phone.</p><p class=ql-align-center>The punishment is older than the law itself.</p><p class=ql-align-center> Parents who violate the Child Device Act must choose:</p><p class=ql-align-center> a lifetime sentence in prison... or exile within <strong>Mall</strong>-a sealed commercial complex that never truly closes.</p><p class=ql-align-center>Fred chooses the mall.</p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>Phantom Atrium</strong> drifts between dream and dread exploring a world where nostalgia becomes prison surveillance becomes faith and every mall aisle hides a reflection that doesn't quite move in sync.</p><p class=ql-align-center> A haunting found-footage novel told through fragmented transcripts analog tapes and corrupted memories-where every light flicker feels like someone pressing record.</p>