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.
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.
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.
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. The Enchanted Theory of Ideal Ends 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?
For more than a thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, often at peace but sometimes at war. Then the First Crusade began in 1096, ushering in a notorious period of conflict between the two religions. The Eighth Crusade, what was thought to be the last, ended in 1270 and introduced a long period of peace…that is until now. You Will Be as Gods is the single-volume account of a brutal modern day crusade between European warrior-citizens and Islamic-invaders. In his chronicling, an American mercenary named Pope tells the bloody story of the rise of invaders throughout Europe and their losses at the hands of indigenous local militias. A mini epic, this tale is full of crusader verve, adventure and a vanquishing grandeur. Set amongst the destruction of a corrupted world, further maintained through widespread brainwashing and propaganda, crusading is revealed to be more than a rallying call, with the complications of coexistence, blending faith with conquest, power and compromise, and all that is done in the name of one’s god.
This iconic collection includes classic stories, modern folklore, and internet creepypastas. Portals, ghosts, beasts, dolls, clowns, myths, legends, the supernatural, and hidden messages for the reader–they are all here in this chilling catalogue by folklorist Tennison Long. Pull up the covers and dim the lights, as this timeless collection is destined to keep you awake tonight. You have been forewarned, if you so dare!
A reclusive condominium dweller, with issues of longing and paranoia, is confined to the safety of self-imposed house arrest due to a mysterious outside catastrophe. As he witnesses society unfold without him, he loses control of reason, slipping deeper into madness as he becomes more reliant on his internet signal, and an ongoing chat conversation with an Indian help desk agent named Candy. Signal Fire is a gripping portrait of a man despondent by despair and emotionally charred by the disjointedness of reality, whose existence is tempered by his own depreciation of modern life and what makes us human…
Pope was adjusting to post-war life with his ex-terrorist fiance when the devolution arrived, and with it new obligations to the country formerly known as America, which was now under invisible foreign control. The federal government absolved of its powers, the highest forms of governance were mayors, marxist minority groups, accelerationists, and an ever-growing coalition of Karens. In this bleakly funny yet alarming novel lies the mystery to human adaptation and self-preservation in the face of imminent extinction, with the dominion of self the key to survival. The Devolution is not just a tragic comedy but a warning shot for the ages…
When a group of very much alive but publicly dead celebrities decide to take down a global cabal of the political elite, it’s up to the gang’s leader to uncover the necessary clues through a web of conspiracies, blackmail and sleight of hand to deliver the underworld its demise. From the highways of the New Mexico desert to the jungles of Cambodia, from a Caribbean island to the halls of Washington DC, the story mixes tales of the human condition with action packed adventure, leading to a thrill ride that leaves you questioning your own perception of most everything that is known...
tex●tu●al is a novel that remaps the territories of fear and loneliness achieving between its two geographically-separated protagonists a long distance pillow talk that is set against the backdrop of a growing pandemic, told through self-indulgent dialogue via text message, the latest work by Tennison Long is performance art in the most rarefied of styles, a mini epic of love and compassion in times of ever worrying isolation.
With his evocative, stylized prose, apocalyptic intensity, and apparent boundless imagination, Tennison Long’s fourth and final novel, On Becoming Yesterday’s Actors, suggests a scanning of the narrator’s mind, a Luddite Gen Xer who sifts through life via varying digressions, while encompassing the differences of more recent generations through a documentarian interspersing of news articles, psycho analysis, historical documents, and observations of his own private surroundings. Under the threat of his child’s abduction, along with a mysterious serial killer spree connection, and the disappearance of a local newscaster, this post-modern meta-manifesto is a second half of life analog to digital coming of age story, chronicled within the ambient noise of a turbulent arrival to the gates of an ever-louder and unrelenting tomorrow.
In the near future, race has replaced religion and identity has become politics. America settles in as a nation that acquiesced disorder through political correctness and the coddling of its youth. Having arrived at a point of no return, the citizens of the United States double down with their intolerance for differing ideas, through weaponizing language and a total remaking of the intersectional landscape. With Civil War II underway, the story is told by a government propagandist, chronicling dispatches from the comfort and safety of Westphalia, a one-percenter’s resort for wartime secured living. As the Resistance battles the Patriots, the pent-up doom of global strife arrives at America’s shores with unimaginable consequences. A tale both thrilling and disturbing, it challenges the most cherished assumptions of our fellow citizens. If you cannot win your personal battles how can you win the war?
“A literary chronicle of the ideological strife that permeates America’s ethos…a quiet masterpiece”
The Reverend seems to have it all, a beautiful family, solid career and his amplified role in the online church, but behind this ideal life is a quiet boredom and lingering desperation. When a homeless encampment sets off the Blacker Plague, society must turn inward, and in this collective shell the Reverend goes after redemption in the doomed terrain of a traumatized society, while visiting his inner demons in hope of emerging from a private catastrophe of dreadful illusion.
“Tonally dark, Mr. Long remains alert to the excess in society and the horrors in the byproduct of such decadence.”
The Disaster Agent is Tennison Long’s unauthorized biography of infamous disaster realtor Randall Bell, recalling a harrowing journey from his teenage years as Jim Jones’ bag man to international money launderer and real estate fixer. His many encounters with the dark side of modern history reveal a slew of government cover-ups and open corruption, while the brainwashed public is kept in a deliberate stupor. This biography divulges insider information never reported on during many of the mass casualty events of the last fifty years, details provided that have the potential to upend anyone’s belief structure of who really runs the world. Bell’s final deal is the development of a post-pandemic homestead, offering medical sovereignty from the chaos of the planet. Can this segregation be the answer to civilization’s survival?
Set amid the voyeuristic static of a post-surveillance world, we follow our anti-hero’s online encounters with a virtual jihadi and the journey of his cis-identity’s surrender to the ambient virtue signals and gaslighting from his new Islamic pen pal...beginning a languid mental and physical transition in how to better cope and survive surrounded by these newfound spiritual awakenings while his pleasure receptors are quickly burning out, his radicalization manifesting a more righteous version of himself, under a new glorious light, or is it a new darkness verve...
“This is not a book, but rather a thrill ride so sit down and enjoy every agonizing and stimulating moment because it will leave marks on your body and scars in your heart.”
