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FERALIS
A Story About What We Forget
by
Frannie Chinny
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Copyright © 2026 Frannie Chinny
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No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author, except for brief quotations used in reviews or other uses permitted by applicable copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and situations are either products of the author’s imagination or have been fictionalized for the purposes of the story. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
First Edition — 2026
DEDICATION
For the people who have ever felt like there was a missing piece of themselves they couldn’t explain.
For the friendships that changed us, the memories that stayed with us, and the parts of ourselves we had to grow into before we could understand.
And for anyone who has ever wondered whether leaving the past behind really means leaving it behind.
This is for you.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Feralis began with a question:
What if you forgot something important about yourself, but your feelings remembered it anyway?
I wanted this story to feel a little like remembering something in real life. Memories don’t always arrive neatly. Sometimes they come as a name, a photograph, a smell, a place, or a feeling that makes no sense until much later. Sometimes we remember the emotion before we remember the reason for it.
Mia’s story grew from that idea.
Throughout Feralis, she has to figure out which memories belong to her, which truths have been hidden from her, and whether the people who kept those truths were protecting her or simply deciding what she was allowed to know.
But beneath all the mystery, this is a story about people.
People who love each other and still make mistakes. People who lie because they are afraid. Friends who keep secrets because they think silence is kindness. People who leave even when they don’t want to. And people who grow older and finally become capable of understanding things their younger selves couldn’t.
Mia doesn’t get a perfect past.
She doesn’t get to change what happened.
What she gets is the chance to understand it.
And sometimes that is enough.
Thank you for entering Feralis.
I hope you leave it remembering one thing: You are not incomplete simply because there are parts of your story you haven’t understood yet.
