CARAPACE
Comedy/Body Horror/Satire
Paperback/eBook
274pp
Illustration by Ksenia Lanina / Design by Travis M. Riddle
Relationships shouldn't be this hard.
Our narrator lives a pretty decent life.
He has a job mining for a mysterious toxic substance used in the nation's #1 haircare product, parents who call him multiple times a week toward whom he feels an unyielding sense of obligation, and a two-bedroom apartment with his high school sweetheart Alyssa.
But one day, she reveals to him her dream: undergoing surgery to become a creature.
Although he isn't sure what that means, he is deeply supportive of her like always, and his devotion to her happiness above everything else soon starts to unravel his entire existence, which might be more fragile than he ever realized.
A darkly comedic satirical body horror for fans of The Substance.
Praise for Carapace
“I really do live for these reading experiences. I love something that makes me actually feel something and also experience something that I haven’t before, and I certainly haven’t quite experienced this before.” - Forever Lost in Literature