The City That Couldn't Sleep

When a thriving American city begins experiencing unexplained, synchronized insomnia, civic order starts to fracture from the inside out. Hospitals overflow, infrastructure strains, and institutions that rely on judgment and restraint begin to erode. As emergency officials scramble for answers, a pattern emerges suggesting the sleeplessness is not random. With economic stability, public trust, and basic safety unraveling, those tasked with protecting the city must determine whether the crisis is biological, technological, or deliberately engineered-before exhaustion transforms instability into irreversible collapse.