Seven Days Until Nobody

A white square appeared on Marcus Hale's phone at 06:10 and it will not delete. It gives him seven days. On the seventh, the world will reconcile his existence and remove it, and everyone who ever knew him will be adjusted to a version of the world where he was never there. His wife Nadia is an emergency room nurse and she does not believe a word of it. She thinks he has relapsed, or worse, and she has already looked up the involuntary hold paperwork without telling him. The only way out is buried in an appeal clause: three independent people, on the record, stating the same verifiable fact about him before the countdown reaches zero. Paper beats memory. Paper costs access. And every piece of proof he collects makes the one person he needs most certain that he is ill. Seven days, one marriage, four people already erased in this city in eleven weeks.