They took his life. They took his memory. They took his name, leaving him nothing, leaving him a slave to Alicia Firelight Del Morgan, leaving him a world that was both irrational and unnaturally strange.

Walking one pace, it was the world and city he had known. Walking two paces, it was a world where giant spiders spun webs between the office buildings and skyscrapers. Old men like dragons lived in houses and gardens beneath the city’s streets. Walking even farther, it was a world where people hunted poetry as if it were a thing alive.

The fair and kindly folk had taken his heart and his mind. He would have his heart. He would find his life and his name. Find the normal world that had been taken from him. Be a slave nevermore.

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Genre . . .
Contemporary Fantasy
Surrealist Urban Fantasy
New Weird

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Themes . . .
The Nature of Reality and Perception
Identity, Servitude, and Freedom
The Power and Danger of Stories

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Setting . . .
The Faire Folk of Gideon unfolds across several interconnected, surreal lands, from the mundane workaday world around us, through the ancient and unknowable gardens of immortal dragons, to the truly bizarre and fantastic forests of the wild poetry.

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Story . . .
After a surreal encounter shatters his reality, Matthew Drake loses his name, his job, and even his heart to the whims of the powerful and cruel Faire Folk. Stripped of his identity and sold into slavery, he must navigate a world of bizarre magic, treacherous politics, and forgotten dreams, all while fighting to reclaim the very essence of himself.

This is a journey into the chaotic heart of what it means to be human.

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Tease . . .
I mean, who comes up with this stuff? Cannibal frogs? How do you come up with an idea like that? Cannibal frogs. What? You’re just sitting around bored one day. And think. I know. Cannibal frogs. Yeah, that’s just what this story needs. Some good old-fashioned cannibal frogs. Or giant spiders living between buildings in old downtown. No, wait, those are real. Why not throw in a moose and squirrel while you’re at it? Get a life, you sadistic freak! And give me back mine!