Glyph World

In the shattered world beyond the fall of Lockvale, memories are currency, electricity is betrayal, and the dead don’t always stay silent.

Kai has always run—from the virus that marked him, the father who vanished into myth, and the guilt he carries like a second spine. But when he’s hunted by agents who walk through dimensions and dreams, Kai is forced to confront the one truth his fractured world hides best: he’s not alone.

With Brute, a dog altered by the same genome-born quantum tether that runs through Kai’s blood, and Lina, a fugitive with memories not entirely her own, Kai descends into the bleeding circuitry of the old world. Beneath ruined cities and forgotten labs, a war of minds and memory unfolds, where graffiti serves as coded prayer and every spark might invite the attention of something watching through the wires.

The ghosts of Kai’s family are real. Some wear his sister’s voice. Some wear his father’s face. And the deeper he goes, the more the virus threatens to awaken what he was never meant to become.

Tense, lyrical, and pulsing with post-collapse mythology, Porchlight explores the threshold between identity and inheritance—where surviving the past might mean choosing who to become without it.