Full Catalog
Fourteen Worlds. One Argument.
Each novella explores a different pressure point in human experience.
Together they ask a larger question: what becomes of the self when the world learns how to price it?
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Enter World
What happens when love, parenting, and desire are separated into different economies?
The Other Half
Hearts Market
The Other Half is a speculative novella about reproductive optimization, dual-mating strategy, and the emotional consequences of splitting love, desire, genetics, and parenthood across different people. Through Selene, Greg, and Tyson, it asks what happens when a society optimizes family design at the cost of relational wholeness.
Enter World
What does a number reveal about us — and what does it erase?
The Number
Bodies Market
The Number explores what happens when intimacy becomes public data and people are judged by statistics instead of stories. Through Elijah, Tala, Junah, and The Veil, the novella examines sexual double standards, race, gender, reputation, privacy, and the difference between numerical truth and human understanding.
Enter World
What happens when the desire to become more costs us the very thing that made us human?
The Chrysalis
Bodies Market
The Chrysalis is a speculative bio-horror novella about a civilization that turns evolution into a consumer product. Through Adrian Vale, Selene, Eli, Nathan, and Richard Halden, the story explores consent, vanity, biological optimization, dissolution of self, and the terrifying possibility that humanity’s desire to become more may require becoming less human.
Enter World
What if the greatest sin was not what you did — but what you refused to do?
When Gods Stay Quiet
Souls Market
When Gods Stay Quiet is a speculative moral tribunal about silence, complicity, power, witness, and unused capacity. Through Halion, Aruun, Vael, and the Council of Reckoning, the novella asks whether neutrality is ever innocent when one has the power to act.
Enter World
What happens when the people a system depends on can no longer be found?
The Vanishing Variable
Systems Market
The Vanishing Variable is a speculative structural allegory about blame, disappearance, race, denial, and projection. As Black people vanish from a city, institutions continue functioning, crime continues, schools continue failing, and society must face the forbidden conclusion that the scapegoat was never the cause.
Enter World
What does protection mean when the threat is built into the world around you?
Blackmail, Black Male
Minds Market
Blackmail, Black Male follows Ilam through a symbolic and psychological descent into the rooms of his own mind. There he discovers that his calm, discipline, and silence were not simply virtues, but survival strategies built under pressure. The novella explores Black male identity as a form of lifelong coercion, asking what it costs to become acceptable in a world that fears your fullness.
Enter World
Who serves the dream after the dreamers declare themselves free?
Who Cleans Galt's Toilets?
Systems Market
Who Cleans Galt’s Toilets? is a speculative systems novella about meritocracy after victory. Through Elias Vale, the Maintenance Class, the Founders, the Darwinians, and the Successors, it explores how revolutions become establishments, how merit compounds into inheritance, and why no civilization permanently solves history.
Enter World
What happens when a life you never lived begins to feel more real than your own?
Proxy
Minds Market
Proxy follows Elias Mercer, a lonely schoolteacher who uses immersive desirability streaming to inhabit Lucien Vale, a man whose life is saturated with female attention and social ease. What begins as relief becomes identity drift, borrowed memory, phantom attachment, and a crisis of selfhood. The novella explores loneliness, masculine invisibility, external validation, and the commodification of desire.
Enter World
What truths become audible when the noise finally disappears?
The Last Frequency
Minds Market
The Last Frequency is a speculative meditation on memory, Black inheritance, trauma, post-human optimization, and cultural survival. It follows The Axis, who choose severance from history to escape inherited pain, and The Resonant, the discarded memory that refuses oblivion. Their reckoning reveals that survival without memory is drift, while memory without motion is decay.
Enter World
What does a society lose when everything has already been priced?
The Robbery
Hearts Market
The Robbery is an interior allegory about heartbreak, emotional defense, loneliness, and the strange comfort of emptiness. It follows a man who turns grief into a legal case, wins and loses by the same verdict, and eventually performs an autopsy on the nothing he spent his life protecting.
Enter World
How do you say goodbye to someone who has been leaving for years?
The Long Goodbye
Hearts Market
The Long Goodbye is a literary novella about compound grief: losing someone once while they are still alive, then again after death. Through Gabriel and Elara, the story explores the limits of logic, the body as final language, art as witness, the guilt of mercy, and the realization that the opposite of forgetting is not remembering, but listening.
Enter World
What if the prison survives because we carry it with us?
The Mirror Doesn’t Work
Minds Market
The Mirror Doesn’t Work is a speculative dystopian novella about algorithmic reflection, internalized anti-Blackness, and the inherited gaze. It follows Naya, a technician who restores true reflections, Omari, an enforcer whose identity collapses when softness returns, and children like Malik who must learn to separate themselves from the monster the mirror trained them to see.
Enter World
What happens when the public interest becomes a market for private power?
In the Public Interest
Systems Market
In the Public Interest is a speculative novella about a galactic medical crisis that exposes humanity’s unresolved relationship with Black bodies, consent, and state power. As dying worlds demand a cure, governments transform voluntary participation into compulsory extraction, forcing Black communities to confront an old question in a new form: who owns the body when everyone claims to need it?
Enter World
What happens after knowledge survives, but meaning is quietly rewritten?
The Second Burning
Minds Market
The Second Burning is a speculative meditation on knowledge after censorship. It follows Liora Venn through a civilization that preserves every book while gradually outsourcing the work of reading, disagreement, complexity, and judgment.