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Robert: An Unreal Boy
AN UNREAL BOY
“You don’t build a soul. You wake it.”
A stranger arrives in a decaying Japanese village — blood or mud on his boots, a dead mill in his eyes, and no name but "Robert." Locals whisper of a ghost. Children dare each other to follow him. But no one dares speak to him. Robert walks alone to the abandoned iron factory every dawn... and returns long after nightfall, stained and silent.
Until one storm-split night, lightning strikes the skeletal ruins, and Robert vanishes.
What follows is a hallucinatory descent into biomechanical horror, body transformation, and spiritual erasure. Robert fuses himself with steel, wire, and rust, seeking transcendence not as a man, but as something other — something unreal. Part Pinocchio, part cybernetic myth, Robert becomes a haunted machine dreaming of humanity while slowly shedding his own.
Set in a rotting, rural Japan untouched by time and technology, An Unreal Boy is a story of metamorphosis, grief, and the horror of becoming what you worship. It is Kafka meets Cronenberg by way of Shinto shadows — a grotesque elegy to identity, isolation, and mechanized rebirth.
“You don’t build a soul. You wake it.”
A stranger arrives in a decaying Japanese village — blood or mud on his boots, a dead mill in his eyes, and no name but "Robert." Locals whisper of a ghost. Children dare each other to follow him. But no one dares speak to him. Robert walks alone to the abandoned iron factory every dawn... and returns long after nightfall, stained and silent.
Until one storm-split night, lightning strikes the skeletal ruins, and Robert vanishes.
What follows is a hallucinatory descent into biomechanical horror, body transformation, and spiritual erasure. Robert fuses himself with steel, wire, and rust, seeking transcendence not as a man, but as something other — something unreal. Part Pinocchio, part cybernetic myth, Robert becomes a haunted machine dreaming of humanity while slowly shedding his own.
Set in a rotting, rural Japan untouched by time and technology, An Unreal Boy is a story of metamorphosis, grief, and the horror of becoming what you worship. It is Kafka meets Cronenberg by way of Shinto shadows — a grotesque elegy to identity, isolation, and mechanized rebirth.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2025
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