"The Four Last Things" reimagines the afterlife as a highly bureaucratic and industrialised cosmos. The narrative follows Oscar Whatmore, a pragmatic removalist who dies in an accident involving a French armoire, as he is processed through a surprisingly mundane Celestial system populated by weary angels and maintenance crews. Oscar quickly finds Heaven to be a tedious, monotonous "Enduring Sameness." Through a bribe, he travels to the Lower Domains (Hell), which is portrayed not as a plac...

The House That Won't Clear is a meditation on presence, language, and the strange ways people learn to live with what cannot be removed.A letter addressed to "the mouth" should have gone nowhere. Instead, it opens the door.Soon a rough, uninvited figure is standing inside the narrator's house — offering advice that is calm, confident, and impossible to refuse. He does not threaten. He does not shout. He simply remains.As the house adjusts to this new presen...

Over the millenia, many cultures have developed distinctive mythological creation sagas. This narrative reimagines the origins of the universe through the lens of industrial craftsmanship and divine engineering. Twin deities named Black and Decker use sacred tools to forge reality from a silent void, replacing traditional elements with electrical currents, sockets, and mechanical parts. The universe is portrayed not as a natural occurrence, but as an infinite workshop where the stars were ...

In The Man Who Tried to Impress Aristotle we follow the story of Edgar Blunt, an ordinary man who discovers an annotated anthology of philosophy and becomes obsessed with achieving Aristotelian virtue through rigid, literal interpretations of concepts like potentiality and the Golden Mean. Edgar's attempts to mathematically calibrate his friendships, diet, and even his sock drawer lead to social isolation and personal paralysis. Through a series of domestic failures, Edgar eventually learn...

What happens when theology works exactly as intended—and someone notices?Sent to Paris to study under Thomas Aquinas, the earnest Agnello degli Cipolle believes he has come in search of truth. What he finds instead is a system: polished, procedural, and exquisitely capable of absorbing doubt without ever acknowledging it.As Agnello struggles to reconcile holiness with gluttony, abstraction, and evasive brilliance, his companions—two gifted cynics with a tas...

The Pilgrim's Wife is the sequel to The Suburban Pilgrim. The protagonist Maxine navigates the emotional and bureaucratic fallout after her husband, Kevin, abandons their suburban life for a mysterious journey. Living in the City of Convenience, Maxine initially struggles with the lack of a formal will and the stifling social expectations of her neighbours. Eventually, she decides to follow Kevin's path, leading her four sons and a neighbour named Kylie through a metaphorical landscape fil...

The Suburban Pilgrim is the story of a man named Kevin, who leaves the mundane "City of Convenience" after experiencing persistent existential unease, symbolised by a ringing in his ears. Kevin's journey becomes a spiritual quest mapped as a physical road, where he encounters various obstacles representing contemporary distractions, such as Life Coach, Fundamentalist, the Bog of Rationalization, and the Fair of Fashion, illustrating different ways people are persuaded to stop seek...

Fr Gideon Necrotode undergoes a psychological and spiritual crisis after experiencing a mysterious vision. He find himself confined in a clinical facility that blends medical bureaucracy with metaphysical phenomena. After witnessing a suspected apparition of the Holy Virgin, Fr Necrotode navigates a landscape of humming chairs, shifting mirrors, and institutional forms that attempt to categorise the divine as "sacred symptoms". The text explores how religious experience is processed throug...

Otto Handley's The Man Who Tried to Impress the Man Who Wasn't There is a surrealist exploration of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. The narrative follows Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor whose obsession with an enigmatic poem leads him to perceive a silent, invisible judge haunting his workplace and home. This perceived evaluative absence eventually destabilises Evan's identity, resulting in a bizarre ontological criminal t...

At a dinner in Orvieto, Pope Urban IV shouts at Thomas Aquinas to pass the involtini. Whether this incident actually occurred is doubtful. Whether it matters is even less clear. And yet the delay—the dish hovering eternally between hands—refuses to end.From this trivial, possibly apocryphal incident unfolds The Physics of Interminableness, a philosophical satire and narrative inquiry into why so many things in modern life never conclude. Across twenty meticulously digressi...

Promptness and Other Errors is a quietly surreal novel about systems that function perfectly while meaning slips sideways. Set in a recognisable contemporary city that is always slightly out of alignment with itself, the book follows no central plot and no conventional protagonist. Instead, it traces a sequence of incidents—domestic, bureaucratic, atmospheric, and metaphysical—in which everyday objects, institutions, and moments begin to behave with an unnerving but polite autonom...

The Lecture That Never Began explores the absurdity of communication through a speaker who perpetually prepares for a presentation that never truly starts. The speaker uses meticulous repetition and circular logic to demonstrate how formal structures and bureaucratic language can mask a total absence of substance. As the chapters progress, the narrator's authority dissolves into linguistic breakdown and internal conflict, revealing a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood or judged. The s...