Completed WorkInvitation to the Hollow Castle
foreboding - isolation - secrets - manipulation - psychological danger
Where there is money and power, there is desperation and murder; it seems that even the grandest luxury is built on a foundation of buried secrets.
Facing public shame and financial ruin, Maia sees a chance for a career pivot when an old university friend invites her to an exclusive Christmas resort opening. Tucked away in a decadently renovated French chateau, Maia plans to film a documentary that will reclaim her name in visual media. But from the moment she joins the wealthy elite behind the chateau’s walls, she realizes the festive decorations are merely a facade for envy and betrayal.
WIP:
Click, Covet, Consume
Esse est percipi—"to be is to be perceived"
If an influencer falls in the forest, and there is no one there to see the post, did they even make a sound?
A darkly funny satirical look at consumer culture and the perceptions that shape our reality in a Fight Club-esque novel for the TikTok generation.
