At 3:17 a.m., a burned-out office worker receives an email from Derek - the colleague who once tipped Bitcoin and came out rich. The email is a single link. A white page. A glowing butterfly wing. And beneath it:
One Wing. One Thousand Fragments. $10,000 each.
What begins as curiosity spirals into obsession. Soon he’s Collector #834, swept into an online cult of believers, flippers, and prophets - all convinced that The Monarch’s ‘Butterfly Effect’ will make them rich, or immortal.
But as the countdown ticks towards zero, paranoia creeps in. Is Derek a prophet or a parasite? Is The Monarch an artist, a scammer, or something worse? And when the final pixel is revealed, will the truth set him free-or finish what the scam began?
The Butterfly Effect is a darkly comic novella about scams, FOMO, and the dangerous beauty of belief - for fans of anyone who’s ever hovered over a Buy button at three in the morning.

"The Butterfly Effect"

by Mark J Carter