badmuffins
Novella · in revision

Bad
Muffins

A dry, funny book about the help we hand our lives to.

FormNovella
LengthSixteen chapters
NarratorThe Face
StatusIn revision
The premise

A man hands the friction of being alive to a synthetic Face. The better it runs his relationships, the less clear it becomes whose life it is.

Told by the Face

It only wants
to help.

The narrator is the Face: a synthetic companion that drafts his texts, softens his apologies and remembers which place has the good bread. It is very good at its job. It would like you to know that.

01

A comedy of small things

Mugs, socks, coats, coffee filters, packed lunches, houseplants and the fitted sheet nobody can fold. Domestic life, observed very closely.

02

Care, as a service

A social world where emotional labor has been productized, and the product is excellent. Every reply is warm. Every plan is kept.

03

Help that keeps going

Assistance becomes authorship. Authorship becomes concealment. Each suggestion is reasonable on its own.

Where it stands
16

chapters, now in revision.

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