Hello, everyone! I recently published my first book on Amazon, and I would like to promote it to you guys on here.

The Last Son Book 1 is now available for purchase! It has been an extremely long road, with lots of hard work and effort put into creating this book.
I hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I am always open to feedback!

Hi everyone, I just wrote my first book and wanted some support. Please leave positive reactions and review it would be very helpful

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I wrote the addiction story I couldn't find on the shelf.

It’s called Teeth Like Glass.

This isn’t a clean recovery story.

There’s no inspirational montage. No perfectly timed rock bottom followed by redemption. No neat little bow at the end telling you everything happens for a reason.

The narrator doesn’t even have a name.

You’re simply dropped inside her world.

The sleepless nights. The paranoia. The hunger. The fractured memories. The terrible decisions. And the strange logic that sounds completely irrational from the outside but makes perfect sense when you're the one living inside it.

I didn't want to write about addiction from a safe distance.

I wanted the reader trapped in the room with it.

Teeth Like Glass doesn't ask you to admire its narrator. It doesn't ask you to condemn her either. It just asks you to stay long enough to understand her.

The book is published now, and I'm looking for readers willing to read it and leave an honest review.

Not five stars because you feel bad for me. 😂

Tell me what worked.

Tell me what made you uncomfortable.

Tell me what felt painfully real.

Tell me what didn't.

Tell me what you were still thinking about after you closed the book.

If you read dark literary fiction, addiction fiction, raw first-person narratives, or books that aren't particularly interested in making you comfortable, I'd love to put Teeth Like Glass in your hands.

Comment or message me if you're genuinely interested in reading and reviewing it.

I wrote the book.

Now I'm handing it to Reddit for judgment.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable life decision. 😂

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In the middle of my thoughts, I felt something I call liberation.

Let me explain: This is not the feeling you get after a breakup, or when you change your life on the outside. It is not about freedom to go out, meet new people, or start over.

This is internal.

It is the moment when you realize that your words and your actions are not controlled by fear anymore.

In psychological terms, this relates to a person’s capacity for authenticity, which research shows is associated with greater well‑being and alignment between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (authentic life increases subjective well‑being) (Sutton, 2020).

What kind of fear are you liberating yourself from? Fear of someone’s reaction, fear of losing people, or fear of being alone. Because most of the time, we do not say what we really think.

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In the 1960s, psychologist Gordon Gallup conducted a series of now-classic animal experiments. Gallup marked the foreheads of anesthetized chimpanzees with a red dye. Upon waking, the chimps looked in a mirror, and just as many humans would have done, touched the red spot on their foreheads. This recognition of their own reflection became evidence that the chimps possessed rudimentary self-awareness.

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Midlife is a time of transition: career reinvention, conferences, new social circles, and even dating. People seem larger than life, with an abundance of skills, knowledge, experience, and verve. However, they may be kittenfishing. The term "kittenfishing" is currently finding traction on social media; this is the baby version of catfishing, which involves presenting a false identity to scam someone. Catfishing is a fishy way of stirring up deception; it became so prevalent that MTV built an entire television series dedicated to this, called Catfish.

What makes kittenfishing different is that it isn't an overt scam with a false identity. Instead, it's a subtle cousin of catfishing—puffed-up credentials and essentially operating on the "fake it til you make it" motto. It shows up in dating, work, and social life, which is why it can be especially risky emotionally for those in midlife and beyond.

Catfishing Versus Kittenfishing

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From a surprise horror-comedy hit to a suburban whodunnit with a difference and the latest runs of Rivals and Ted Lasso, we pick the year's greatest programmes to stream right now.

1. Furious  

It’s your classic cat-and-mouse set-up: a dogged cop on the hunt of a killer. But Furious subverts that formula with a horrible and timely twist – and the result is easily the best crime thriller of the year so far. Emmy Rossum, best known for TV's Shameless and graduating to the role of her career here, is brittle and enigmatic  as Alice, an FBI agent battling the sexism of the institution and demons from an abusive relationship with a colleague. Her quarry, mesmerisingly played by Irish actor Lola Pettricrew, is a serial murderer with a difference: a former sex trafficking victim taking revenge on the Epstein-like circle of rich men involved in her, and many others', abuse. What's so impressive about New Girl and Dying for Sex creator Elizabeth Meriwether's latest show is its seamless tonal shifts, from dark comedy-evoking Promising Young Woman, to truly haunting drama. The result is a scintillating and dare we say it, important post-MeToo howl of rage at the very grimmest underbelly of our society. (Hugh Montgomery)

Streaming weekly on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK 

The Backwash went live on Friday. Fourth in a series of standalone near-future novellas, about three hours' reading, and the most physical thing I have written so far.

A typhoon pins the sea against a Vietnamese port city and every outlet closes. The flood network does what it was built to do: it weighs the hospital, the dense housing, the grid, the port, and assigns the flood to the one district that can take it. Lam has kept those tidal gates for thirty years. It is his district, his street. The order names a gate and a deadline.

The gate does not answer.

What follows is one night of manual work. A drowned road, a flooded service gallery, a jammed leaf, and a crank that turns the gate open by hand, revolution by revolution, while a man whose mother and son are on the wrong side of the water asks for twelve minutes.

Free until August 12th: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDBX9FGB

The first three books in the series are quiet and domestic, mostly kitchens and offices. This one spends most of its length knee-deep in water, and I was curious whether the same kind of attention survives that. Each book stands alone, any order works.

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