White Mice - Daniel White

1-807 has never spoken.
He has never been free.

Inside Zegot Testing Facilities, obedience is enforced through pain, silence is survival, and identity is reduced to a number. Born into captivity, 1-807 exists only to endure scheduled trials, controlled suffering, and the slow erosion of self.

When a systems failure leaves the facility unguarded, he steps beyond his assigned cage for the first time. What follows is not escape, but exposure - to the machinery of human experimentation, to the disposable lives around him, and to a truth far worse than confinement.

White Mice is a bleak dystopian novella about institutional cruelty, dehumanisation, and the cost of scientific progress stripped of ethics. Told through the eyes of a mute subject conditioned to obey, it explores what happens when freedom is offered to someone never meant to survive it.

This is not a story of rebellion.
It is a story of endurance.

For readers of dark, uncompromising fiction in the vein of 1984, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and the most disturbing episodes of Black Mirror.

Novella length (approx. 11,000 words).

Content Advisory:
Graphic violence, psychological horror, torture and experimentation, cannibalism, strong language, and extreme distress. Intended for mature readers.