Monkey Business

In Terra Nova, power is a game of noise. The loud survive, the cruel thrive, and the meek are trampled underfoot. Among the scheming predators and swaggering fools, Alkebulan; a quiet monkey has been invisible for as long as anyone can remember. But Terra Nova remembers nothing. When Alkebulan disappears, leaving behind a crude book filled with the secret history of their survival, those who mocked and overlooked him are forced to confront a harrowing truth; they owe their lives to a creature they barely noticed.
Every boast, every careless triumph, every narrow escape was paid for by the smallest one among them. As old lies rot and half remembered cruelties resurface, the beasts of Terra Nova embark on a grim journey through the remnants of their past, finding the wreckage of a world they built on pride, indifference, and petty malice. And in the heart of a twisted forest, beneath a crooked, dying tree, they'll learn that some acts of kindness cannot be undone and that memory, once it returns, is never kind.
Monkey Business is a bleak, unsettling fable about the small, invisible lives sacrificed for the comfort of the unworthy. It is a story about the violence of indifference, the weight of forgotten debts, and the bitter truth that those we ignore rarely disappear. They endure.