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  • Promptness and Other Errors

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Pilgrim's Wife

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Physics of Interminableness

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The House That Won’t Clear

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Gospel of Black and Decker

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tried to Impress Thomas Aquinas

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Lecture That Never Began

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Book of Grease

    by Otto Handley ...
    The Book of Grease is a history of the Universe tracing its origin from the emergence of the divine eternal lubricant, Grease. The central prophetic figure who personifies evolution into actuality is the Anointed Fryer, who became known to humanity in the personage of Frank. The narrative traces the evolution of belief systems, starting with the initial devotion of the Greasites to the Fryer's ... Read more

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  • The Four Last Things

    by Otto Handley ...
    "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 ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tried to Impress G K Chesterton

    by Otto Handley ...
    The story follows Archibald Abercrombie, a meticulous dentist whose orderly life is briefly upended after a chance meeting with the exuberant writer G. K. Chesterton. While initially intoxicated by Chesterton's brilliant paradoxes and disregard for convention, Abercrombie gradually notices the physical decay and practical neglect hidden beneath the author's verbal abundance. He eventually realises ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tried to Impress the Man Who Wasn’t There

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Procrastinator

    by Otto Handley ...
    This narrative follows Wayne, a chronic procrastinator who moves from his mother's basement to a public housing estate after an encounter with his mother's boyfriend. He moves in with his generous friend Rick, who is a postman. Wayne struggles to find suitable employment and is sacked from a number of jobs. One day he begins recording and uploading monotonous videos of his mundane surroundings, ... Read more

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