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Greetings: A Novelette
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live—but it's the source of truth that devours everything."
In GREETINGS, Stefan Schulz dissects the fever dream of American isolation with brutal precision. A doorman who works under an assumed name. A delivery cyclist navigating pre-dawn San Antonio. A woman whose beauty masks pharmaceutical dependencies. A pharmacy worker losing his sight.
This is literature for the velocity of now—a portrait of modern loneliness where strangers orbit the same spaces, leaving invisible marks without ever truly connecting. The story lives in what's the weight of a greeting, the cost of a missed glance, the violence of indifference.
Told through a series of interwoven monologues, GREETINGS is a darkly lyrical debut that explores how small human gestures—missed, misfired, or misunderstood—can ripple through a city's soul. Set across a single day in San Antonio, the novel follows multiple characters whose lives brush against each other in ways both profound and unnoticed.
Fans of Jennifer Egan, George Saunders, and Black Mirror will find familiar echoes in this haunting, electric collection that In a world of endless connectivity, why do we feel more alone than ever?
Perfect for readers who enjoy: literary fiction, dark humor, interconnected narratives, urban loneliness, experimental storytelling, novellas, novellettes, and contemporary American voices.
In GREETINGS, Stefan Schulz dissects the fever dream of American isolation with brutal precision. A doorman who works under an assumed name. A delivery cyclist navigating pre-dawn San Antonio. A woman whose beauty masks pharmaceutical dependencies. A pharmacy worker losing his sight.
This is literature for the velocity of now—a portrait of modern loneliness where strangers orbit the same spaces, leaving invisible marks without ever truly connecting. The story lives in what's the weight of a greeting, the cost of a missed glance, the violence of indifference.
Told through a series of interwoven monologues, GREETINGS is a darkly lyrical debut that explores how small human gestures—missed, misfired, or misunderstood—can ripple through a city's soul. Set across a single day in San Antonio, the novel follows multiple characters whose lives brush against each other in ways both profound and unnoticed.
Fans of Jennifer Egan, George Saunders, and Black Mirror will find familiar echoes in this haunting, electric collection that In a world of endless connectivity, why do we feel more alone than ever?
Perfect for readers who enjoy: literary fiction, dark humor, interconnected narratives, urban loneliness, experimental storytelling, novellas, novellettes, and contemporary American voices.
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 19, 2025
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