Memory Auction

In a city where feelings are currency, the Score Festival turns memories into marketable assets-and nothing is off-limits. Ze is a cardslinger with one obsession: the woman in a faded photograph whose laugh he can't stop chasing. When his team breaches the Festival's rounds to win a Phantom Mirror shard, they unwittingly trigger a chain of auctions, brokered footage, and a Resonance Tax that demands more than money. As corporate memory brokers carve up intimate moments and underground markets sell fragments to the highest bidder, Ze and his crew must decide how far they'll go to reclaim a single past.
What begins as a heist to buy back a memory becomes a fight against an economy that treats identity as collateral. Evading sanctioned enforcers, navigating bazaar politics, and mastering emergent group skills, they discover the true cost of ownership-and what it means to trade your yesterday for a tomorrow. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and tech thrillers, Memory Auction blends near-future speculative fiction, heist suspense, and moral complexity into a bittersweet, fast-paced tale about memory, market power, and the price of longing.