FAILURE TO COMPLY | Out 08.06.2024

Failure to Comply by Cavar
  • Every story has its fugitives. “I,” a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, a high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future—or risk remaining Patient forever.

    I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.

  • Goodreads

    Storygraph

    Cover Reveal (Chicago Review of Books)

  • • At featherproof books.

    Brief Tale of a Tongue in travesties.

    between the axe in dogteeth lit.

    • Mirror Stage in Mouth Feel Magazine (forthcoming).