The Art of Injury explores the melancholic realms of Becky’s fleeting existence which revolves around medical appointments, vaccination timetables, mystery illnesses, well-timed accidents, and other self-inflicted wounds—or what she considers to be performance art for her moveable audience. In her quest for validation from a deadened society, she overcomes victimhood by rising above the pharmacological push and past traumas. Through elaborate role-playing with her friend Chad, she is able to outrun the phantom sadness that chases her. Within this presentation of proxy suffering is the dissection of the perverse connections between caregiver and patient, performer and audience, revealing the lengths to which one woman will venture in her pursuit of purpose before an untimely end.
With intrigue and psychological tension, "American Incel" presents the story of an ordinary young man navigating a world increasingly plagued by depersonalization. Struggling with perceived identity deficiencies outside of the mainstream, he finds himself unable to connect to women and succumbs to reckless isolation. However, the circumstances that have led to his predicament are more complex than they initially seem. They stem from society's ongoing alienation, an overbearing mother, a corrupted medical industry, and a host of government-created horrors. Amidst this turmoil, a glimmer of hope for escape emerges through a complex relationship with his FBI handler. But the question looms: Is escape possible, or is he destined to remain an incel forever? "American Incel" defies genre boundaries, offering a narrative rich with literary ambiguity–a story of an anti-hero grappling with the spiritual exhaustion that characterizes life in the twenty-first century.
A neo-noir tale of what happens when weak men make hard times. As society unravels there is pushback from those consciously aware, enter the white everyman who, in the face of escalating turmoil, surrenders to a subtle yet overwhelming madness. All he desired was to be left alone, but now he was an ordinary man at war. His was an unconventional daily life, grasping at a sanity that was quickly slipping away, leading to the justification of unjustifiable actions. A monster borne from the failures of a once-polite society, he grapples with blurred lines between right and wrong in a haze of manufactured fantasies. As the narrative unfolds, it is clear he is losing part of himself. The world he was born into is not the one he is forced to inhabit. As there is a rapid acceleration to his violence there is added fuel for his hallucinations, as an underlying sadness is the propellant to the flames. A terrifying and gripping tale, Tennison Long crafts a kaleidoscopic meditation on masculinity, technology, corruption, and society’s precipitous decline.
The Enchanted Theory of Ideal Ends is a mind-blowing and daring narrative, challenging the fundamental nature of truth and our shared perception of history. Delving into the depths of historical events that have long shaped humanity's understanding of itself, the author highlights where established facts may indeed be fiction. From the iconic moon landing to the mysterious collapse of Building 7, from the intricate story of evolution to questioning if dinosaurs ever existed, these and other historical nodes in time are revisited from new perspectives. TETOI is a cerebral journey where nothing is as it seems, inviting wonderment to the potent possibility that history may be a tapestry of well orchestrated narratives and carefully woven lies, designed to maintain a status quo serving the interests of the most powerful among us. If the news is so easily manipulated, how inaccurate could the stories of our past be?
