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Novels

Blurry Years

                 You can call me Scrapper. It’s 2060 and I live in Berlin, trapped beneath a plastic dome in a hellhole of a city on a seriously messed up planet. Very few adults, even fewer rules. This is what the kids in town know; this is what we can remember. As for what we forgot — family, childhood, even our own names — well, that mystery haunts our every step. The Blurry Years, we call them.              

                 We thought those times would remain in the shadows, until one day, everything changed. To avoid jail, I volunteered to accept a memory. A memory that wasn’t mine. A memory from the past. And from the moment I peered into that memory, my life, and the lives of everyone I knew, would never be the same. This city is ruled by secrets — but, for better or worse, I'm learning how to remember what we all forgot.​         

 

               Blurry Years is narrated through the lens of introverted Scrapper — alongside his fierce friend Cyril — as they battle to unravel the mysteries of their past and that of their city. Memories, both lost and gained, haunt their every step as they are thrust from the clutches of a menacing doctor into the midst of an enigmatic rebellion. Friendships are tested, romances blossom and wither, and all the while, the fog shrouding Scrapper’s mind slowly burns away. Diving into the depths of repressed memory like The Giver and echoing dystopian thrillers such as The Maze Runner, Blurry Years interrogates generational trauma as well as the promise and terror of mind-altering technologies. 

The Memory Mule

In a future ravaged by drought and desert storms, where humans are forced to cower in sheltered cities and many technologies have long since collapsed, memories have become valued merchandise. In the murky margins of the black market, couriers - called mules - are charged with smuggling memories across desolate landscapes to dispersed settlements. The Memory Mule, a novel of ~90,00 words, is a collection of tales which probe this dystopian future. 

 

The main narrative - developed along four central arcs - focuses on the story of a grieving mule as he negotiates a tenuous existence inside and outside of the walls; tasked with carrying the memories of others, he is haunted by the echoes of memories he has traded away in exchange. Intermingled are tales of other denizens of this broken world - religious zealots, assassins, rogue scientists and trashmen amongst them. 

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A melding of Black Mirror style conundrums written in the serial manner of Canterbury Tales and Hyperion, The Memory Mule reflects on the arcane power of memory to reign over the past, present and future and probes the prospect of technologies to transform memories into tradable assets.

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Cup of Coffee

Coffee at the Rift Cafe

Ailing from the death of his best friend, Chris Terrence stumbles onto her final secret and uncovers a rift through time itself. Unfortunately, so has her killer Richard Busca; in a new world, Busca aims to kill his victims once more. Hot on Busca's trail is Detective Kirstin Jimenez - teaming up with Chris, they represent the only hope of stopping the bloodshed. But before they can hope to catch Busca, they must reckon with their own lives across the time rift.

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