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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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  • Three Men in a Bar

    by Otto Handley ...
    This collection of parables, explores the persistent human struggle to maintain order within failing systems. Each narrative follows a recurring motif where three men claiming some sort of expertise ranging from theology to plumbing converge at a pub to discuss the futilities and complexities of their respective crafts. Through these encounters, the author illustrates that while language, logic, ... Read more

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  • On Witnessing the Delusion of the Holy Virgin

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Grease Handbook

    Greasepolis

    by Otto Handley ...
    Series series Greasepolis
    This handbook is a selection of primary sources about the intricate metaphysical cosmology where grease serves as the foundational medium for existence, This handbook is a selection of primary sources about the intricate metaphysical cosmology where grease serves as the foundational medium for existence, retaining all historical and emotional memory across various realms. Much of the research, led ... 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 Aristotle

    by Otto Handley ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tried to Impress Jordan Peterson

    by Otto Handley ...
    A Domestic Allegory in Five LecturesAn inquiry into the ontological conditions of dust, the moral hierarchy of crustaceans, and the perilous relation between tidiness and transcendence.A young student has a life-changing encounter with an avatar of Jordan Peterson. ... 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 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 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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