Books

Three literary paths through the work of P. A. Rallax: the mysteries of consciousness, the performances of political power, and the difficult distinction between evidence and truth.

Explore the collections: Metaphysical & Philosophical Fiction  ·  Politics, Power & Satire  ·  Crime & Psychological Mysteries


Metaphysical & Philosophical Fiction

Fictions of consciousness, memory, perception, spiritual inquiry, and alternate ways of living. Each work begins with a familiar life and asks what may lie just beyond its apparent limits.

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The Prism

A metaphysical novella

When Cael Nadir begins remembering places, names, and grief from lives he has never lived, the world around him starts to change. A story of parallel selves, fragmented memory, and the search for wholeness beyond a single identity.

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Believing is Seeing

A philosophical journey

A symbolic traveler moves through the landscapes of inherited belief—mirrors, walls, expectations, and the stories that shape perception. A reflective exploration of how our assumptions influence what we believe ourselves capable of becoming.

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The Way of Suiya

A novella of water, silence, and belonging

After the collapse of familiar systems, Ilan follows a river to a village without formal rulers. His search for structure becomes a different kind of education in listening, belonging, and the freedom that comes from relinquishing control.

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Room 1111

A novella of belief and exit

Arthur Kells wakes in a sealed hotel room with a demolition deadline approaching. Guided by a disembodied voice called AIR, he confronts a succession of choices that test certainty, surrender, and the boundaries of what he believes possible.

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The Mirror at the End

A literary meditation on memory and conscience

An old manuscript discovered in an attic opens into a realm beyond ordinary time, where a soul must witness the consequences of lives shaped by war, mercy, silence, and responsibility. A serious exploration of conscience and remembrance.

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Liora’s Lesson

For younger readers · Ages 9+

Liora Martin questions the everyday rules that her classmates and teachers have stopped noticing. Her curiosity gently transforms a classroom, opening a story about how children think, how adults listen, and what education might become.

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The Unchosen Life

A metaphysical novella

Daniel Mercer, a reflective man with unfinished creative ambitions, confronts the lives he has not chosen and the possibility that consciousness encompasses more than a single path. A meditation on decision, hesitation, and the meaning of a life actually lived.

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Politics, Power & Satire

Political fictions about authority, the manufacture of public confidence, official narratives, and the dangerous convenience of a convincing performance.

The Lump Series

Three publications, arranged in reading order. Begin with a founding mistake, follow its presidential inheritance, and arrive at an age in which political authority can be manufactured by a machine. Explore the Complete Lump Series →

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The Founding Lump

Book I · Historical political satire

Bartholomew Ignatius Lump arrives in Philadelphia with an ink satchel and an entirely unwarranted sense of importance. Through mistakes that acquire the force of precedent, a political inheritance begins almost by accident.

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The Lump Doctrine

Book II · Complete satirical trilogy

A president becomes unexpectedly articulate, and the people surrounding him struggle to preserve a convincing public image. Three connected volumes trace substitutions, mirrored identities, and the strange machinery of political reassurance.

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The Last Lump

Book III · Satirical novella

A machine trained on presidential language delivers immaculate reassurance—and begins to acquire authority of its own. In the digital conclusion to the Lump cycle, familiar political theater no longer requires a human performer.

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Other Fictions of Power

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The Dozzin Protocol

Absurdist political satire

When an embarrassing crisis threatens a presidency, handlers recruit a struggling actor to impersonate the nation’s leader. The impersonation succeeds so thoroughly that the distinction between governing and performing begins to vanish.

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The Modernization Directive

Speculative political thriller

In a city celebrated for its recovery after catastrophe, auditor Ronan Virelli discovers an insurance payment approved before the building it covers was destroyed. His inquiry exposes a contest over manipulated evidence, public memory, and the narratives of power.

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Crime & Psychological Mysteries

Mysteries in which evidence must be distinguished from inference, appearances may conceal other identities, and the discovery of truth raises questions as consequential as the crime itself.

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Clean Cut

A forensic mystery in five parts

A technology executive is found dead in Boston, and the investigators must separate what the forensic record proves from what it merely suggests. Structured around a musical pattern and three possible endings, this novella examines the limits of certainty.

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After the Curtain

The Light Remembers · A psychological mystery

Decades after a Hollywood star is acquitted of two alleged murders, journalist Evelyn Hart returns to a story whose apparent certainty rests on questionable records and curated memories. Her investigation asks what truth can establish—and what disclosure may cost.

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Reading the Books

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