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Interlaced Devouring
A Short Fiction of Prejudice, Paranoia, and the Soul’s Reckoning
A Story That Exposes the Machinery of Hatred—and What It DevoursWhat happens when society’s gaze becomes a noose? When prejudice—unseen, unchallenged—eats into the marrow of a man until he no longer knows whether his enemy lives outside him or within?
Interlaced Devouring is an unflinching work of literary fiction that plunges readers into the fractured mind of Detective Mubon Kyh, a man consumed by secrets, delusion, and the crushing weight of systemic discrimination.
Kyh is a bisexual police officer who has spent his life in denial, hiding his sexuality in the one institution where being gay is the force itself. He wears his uniform like armor, even marrying a woman with a child to maintain the perfect disguise. But the lie seeps through—like oil spreading on paper.
Denied promotion, trembling at invisible pursuers, Kyh convinces himself that unseen informants are sabotaging him, exposing sins no worse than those of his peers. As paranoia overtakes him, he spirals into hallucination and violence. His delusions don’t just devour his career—they consume his family, his sanity, and, ultimately, his soul.
This is not just the story of one man’s downfall. It is an allegory for the way prejudice corrodes entire communities, how bias—like rust—eats silently through the beams until collapse is inevitable.
Why This Short Fiction Matters Now1. A Razor’s Edge Portrait of Prejudice
In an age where institutions still fail queer lives, this story makes the abstract concrete. It shows prejudice not as a slogan but as a lived erosion, dismantling the inner scaffolding of a man until nothing remains but ruin.
2. A Psychological Descent as Harrowing as Any Crime Story
Kyh’s trembling hands, his whispered questions, his desperate bargains with shadows—all evoke the haunting texture of Kafka’s The Trial or Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. It is a crime story turned inward, where the perpetrator and victim are the same man.
3. A Fable of the Soul in a World of Flesh
The title, Interlaced Devouring, holds symbolic interlaced fingers can look like intimacy—or restraint. Devouring can mean hunger—or annihilation. The novel What happens when society forces us to live as devourers or devoured, never as whole selves?
Comparisons & Literary LineageIf you were shaken by the raw social allegory of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the psychological claustrophobia of Kafka, or the searing critique of institutions in Han Kang’s Human Acts, this book belongs on your shelf.
But it is also singular. Where Orwell revealed the tyranny of the state, and Saramago the absurdity of survival, Interlaced Devouring reveals the slow violence of prejudice—how it devours the soul as surely as famine devours the body.
Final Note to ReadersThis is not just a short fiction. It is a scalpel, cutting into the silence around discrimination. It is a mirror, forcing us to see what we prefer to look away from. And it is a requiem—for the souls lost not only to violence, but to the more ordinary cruelty of being unseen.
Read it once for the harrowing descent. Read it again for the symbols left behind, like fingerprints pressed in ash.
A Story That Exposes the Machinery of Hatred—and What It DevoursWhat happens when society’s gaze becomes a noose? When prejudice—unseen, unchallenged—eats into the marrow of a man until he no longer knows whether his enemy lives outside him or within?
Interlaced Devouring is an unflinching work of literary fiction that plunges readers into the fractured mind of Detective Mubon Kyh, a man consumed by secrets, delusion, and the crushing weight of systemic discrimination.
Kyh is a bisexual police officer who has spent his life in denial, hiding his sexuality in the one institution where being gay is the force itself. He wears his uniform like armor, even marrying a woman with a child to maintain the perfect disguise. But the lie seeps through—like oil spreading on paper.
Denied promotion, trembling at invisible pursuers, Kyh convinces himself that unseen informants are sabotaging him, exposing sins no worse than those of his peers. As paranoia overtakes him, he spirals into hallucination and violence. His delusions don’t just devour his career—they consume his family, his sanity, and, ultimately, his soul.
This is not just the story of one man’s downfall. It is an allegory for the way prejudice corrodes entire communities, how bias—like rust—eats silently through the beams until collapse is inevitable.
Why This Short Fiction Matters Now1. A Razor’s Edge Portrait of Prejudice
In an age where institutions still fail queer lives, this story makes the abstract concrete. It shows prejudice not as a slogan but as a lived erosion, dismantling the inner scaffolding of a man until nothing remains but ruin.
2. A Psychological Descent as Harrowing as Any Crime Story
Kyh’s trembling hands, his whispered questions, his desperate bargains with shadows—all evoke the haunting texture of Kafka’s The Trial or Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. It is a crime story turned inward, where the perpetrator and victim are the same man.
3. A Fable of the Soul in a World of Flesh
The title, Interlaced Devouring, holds symbolic interlaced fingers can look like intimacy—or restraint. Devouring can mean hunger—or annihilation. The novel What happens when society forces us to live as devourers or devoured, never as whole selves?
Comparisons & Literary LineageIf you were shaken by the raw social allegory of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the psychological claustrophobia of Kafka, or the searing critique of institutions in Han Kang’s Human Acts, this book belongs on your shelf.
But it is also singular. Where Orwell revealed the tyranny of the state, and Saramago the absurdity of survival, Interlaced Devouring reveals the slow violence of prejudice—how it devours the soul as surely as famine devours the body.
Final Note to ReadersThis is not just a short fiction. It is a scalpel, cutting into the silence around discrimination. It is a mirror, forcing us to see what we prefer to look away from. And it is a requiem—for the souls lost not only to violence, but to the more ordinary cruelty of being unseen.
Read it once for the harrowing descent. Read it again for the symbols left behind, like fingerprints pressed in ash.
33 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 3, 2025
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