The Line Drawers

In the aftermath of the explosive Cain v. Marshall police brutality case, seventeen-year-old Iris Valerio becomes the target of a merciless online witch hunt. Branded a traitor by a viral hashtag, she leaps to her death from her apartment roof. Seven years later, her brother Leo, a reclusive tech prodigy, has carefully catalogued every anonymous comment, every share, every digital stone thrown. Now, using a labyrinth of code and fake identities, he orchestrates an elaborate offline reckoning—a series of psychological torments that force each perpetrator to stare into the abyss they created. Told through fragmented timelines, encrypted messages, and chillingly close narration, this story asks whether the boundaries of justice are not crossed, but redrawn, by those brave enough to shatter the rules.