A Novel
The worst thing about being taken
is not knowing what they took.
Kindle · February 16, 2026
James DeVaughn has spent thirty years searching for answers.
The blinding light. The paralysis. The faceless beings who came to his bedroom in the night.
The support groups. The research. The star maps on his walls. The marriage that collapsed under the weight of his obsession.
Then his mother dies
and leaves him a box.
I should have protected you.
Inside are photographs, police reports, and a letter that begins with five words that unravel everything James thought he knew about his own life.
What follows is a devastating journey from the stars back down to earth — from the alien narrative that kept James alive to the human truth that nearly destroys him.
As James peels back the layers of his own memory, he discovers that the visitor was real.
It just wasn't what he thought it was.
A novel about trauma, survival, and the stories our minds create when the truth is too terrible to bear.
Screen Memory is not a science fiction novel. It wears science fiction's clothing — the abductions, the missing time, the beings in the dark — but underneath, it's about something far more terrestrial and far more devastating.
It's about what happens when the people who were supposed to protect you are the ones you needed protection from. It's about the extraordinary architecture of denial. The way a child's mind will build an entire mythology — complete with aliens, examinations, and stolen memories — to avoid the one memory it cannot hold.
And it's about what happens when that architecture finally collapses.
