APEX Cycle

Sarah is a burn-out. Her twenties have been wasted in a psychedelic haze. Now she wants to be sober, avoid temptation, so she joins a clinical trial to be sequestered away from the world. Paranoia flows. Weird experiments are carried out on their waking and sleeping bodies. They realize the trial is changing them. Programming them. Installing false memories and removing emotions. If they don't do something before their tenure ends, they might not be human when they leave.

In a city of ten million people, under glass eyes of six million cameras, one man evades their networked stares, and watches those who are watched. His days are spent deducing the stories of strangers' lives, filming every moment. But he's is starting to see more, and fate is bringing other observers into his life, teaching him how to push his skills further. Before he knows it, he starts looking beyond the present, seeing the past in more detail than ever, perhaps glimpsing the future. But he's also hearing voices, thinks he's being followed, surveilled, and has no idea how much – if any of it – is real. All he knows, is that if he wants answers, he has to keep watching.

Exclusive collected edition, featuring Footage, Beyond Footage, and a short story set within the APEX universe. FOOTAGE: In a city of ten million, under glass eyes of six million cameras, one man evades their networked stares, and watches those who are watched. Jared's days are spent deducing stories from momentary glimpses of present actions in streets, train stations and airports. Filming every moment. But he's starting to see more. Before he knows it, he starts looking beyond the present, seeing the past in more detail than ever, perhaps glimpsing the future. But he's also hearing voices, thinks he's being followed, surveilled, and has no idea how much - if any of it - is real. All he knows, is that if he wants answers, he has to keep watching. ------------------- BEYOND FOOTAGE: He knows you. Your past. Your future. He knows he's being hunted, by a man who's more than human. He knows he needs to leave the country, and he knows the voices aren't real. But what if they are?