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I write the kind of books that ask questions most people avoid. My stories mix myth, satire, and the strange machinery behind what we call reality. I like building worlds where dragons shape continents, fallacies walk like living creatures, and the truth hides in plain sight. If a reader finishes one of my books thinking a little harder about the world around them, then I have done my job.
I work in a mythic register. I enjoy rhythm, clarity, and the feeling that a story can be both ancient and modern at the same time. My writing leans into the edges of belief, the places where science, folklore, and human stubbornness collide. I do not pretend to have all the answers, but I enjoy hunting for them.

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Revisiting the Timeline: Understanding the AM Framework and the Phantom Years

Every so often I need to step back and clarify the timeline that underpins the cosmology explored in Reality Ain’t Real. Readers come to the book from many different starting points, and without a grounding in the Anno Mundi structure, the shifts can feel disorienting. This post lays out the core framework as plainly as possible.
The AM Timeline
The AM system is simple once you see the pattern:
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“Cognitive dissonance is the mind quietly bending reality to protect the story it already lives inside.
It hits the smartest people hardest, because they are the most invested in believing they are immune to it.”
― Brian Townsend

“Cognitive dissonance is the mind quietly bending reality to protect the story it already lives inside.
It hits the smartest people hardest, because they are the most invested in believing they are immune to it.”
― Brian Townsend

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self‑evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Fourth, it is weaponized. — Brian Townsend”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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