The Remorse Act

By: Will Savive

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They didn’t erase the crime.
They erased the regret.

When The Remorse Act passed, the country celebrated a miracle: a legal, clinical procedure that could remove guilt from the mind. No more shame spirals. No more nightmares. No more remorse.

For investigative journalist Claire Rowan, it always sounded like a lie—until her brother dies shortly after treatment, leaving behind a receipt he never meant anyone to see.

Claire’s search for answers drags her into a world of sealed records, sanitized clinics, and a powerful coalition determined to keep the truth buried. Because the procedure wasn’t created to heal people.

It was created to control them.

Deep inside a hidden archive, the erased remorse of thousands has been indexed, studied, and weaponized—revealing what happens when conscience becomes optional. Society grows quieter. People become “better.” And those with the most to hide become impossible to stop.

Then Claire discovers a file marked with her own name.

And realizes the most terrifying part of the Remorse Act isn’t what it takes away.

It’s what it leaves behind.