The Coral Archive
by Brinda Phokeerdass

In the drowned cities of Mauritius, memory is dangerous—and the coral remembers everything.

Kiara Lagoune, an apprentice archivist, believes her job is to preserve approved history. But when she discovers a living coral that sings in forbidden rhythms and whispers the names of the erased, her world fractures. Beneath the floating skylines and sterile preservation laws lies a suppressed truth: the ocean has become a living archive of rebellion, sorrow, and defiance.

As the authoritarian Preservation Bureau moves to cleanse the reefs and silence the voices rising from the deep, Kiara must choose: protect her family's legacy of forgetting, or join a secret network of memory-keepers and ignite a cultural uprising carried not by weapons—but by song, dance, and the pulse of the sea itself.

In this visionary eco-fiction novel blending ancestral memory and speculative future, The Coral Archive is a haunting anthem to resistance, reclamation, and the unstoppable power of story.

We do not forget. We resist. We sing.