After the False Memory

By Adeeba Rashid

Rehan Qureshi, nineteen years old and already hosting his own radio segment, boards a monsoon-stranded train through central India expecting a six-week assignment and nothing more. When a stranger's will names him as sole beneficiary, he is pulled into a web of compromised biometric evidence, a colleague whose loyalties are dangerously unclear, and a community radio archive where every witness remembers the same night differently. As a friend is arrested using evidence Rehan himself uncovered, he must choose between the career he sacrificed everything to build and the truth that could destroy the people closest to him. The safest relationships are the ones that will undo him.