Aituar Abultayev - DOPAMINE

When an internet outage plunges a Kazakh village into digital withdrawal, an IT specialist discovers an impossible cause: an ancient anomaly feeding on human dependence. Then the signal returns—but it carries something no network should be able to transmit. The anomaly exploits what people fear losing most, turning their need to reconnect into a threat. To stop it, the specialist must uncover the link between the outage and a force rooted in the past. DOPAMINE is a cyberpunk horror novella about digital addiction, a signal from the past, and the danger of being unable to disconnect.