Tales By R. J. King
HIGH
Tobi Andrews lives by the rules. Schedules. Plans. Stability is something you build, not gamble. His best friend, Reuben, lives like tomorrow is optional. When Tobi agrees to cross a line he has spent his teen years avoiding, one night fractures into something far larger. Time bends. Certainty dissolves. What began as an experiment spirals into an existential collision with grief, memory, friendship, and the terrifying freedom of seeing the universe without filters.
As reality slips and perspectives warp, Tobi is forced to confront the stories he tells himself to feel safe and what happens when those stories no longer hold. Loss echoes. Love mutates. Meaning is carved out of strange, unforgiving moments. HIGH is a coming of age novel about friendship as a force of nature, the cost of avoidance, and what remains when structure fails. It is not a cautionary tale. It is a question.
DICHOTOMOUS
Gus Ortega spent twenty years building a machine that could preserve the human mind forever.
Then it copied him.
As the world teeters on collapse, Gus is forced to confront an impossible question: if a perfect version of him exists without his body, which one of him is real?
Meanwhile, Eddie Porter, a janitor with no interest in immortality, becomes caught in the machinery of Gus’s grand experiment .
Together, they stumble into a future neither man intended, where consciousness is negotiable, identity is unstable, and eternity may be the longest mistake humanity ever makes.
DICHOTOMOUS is a darkly comic science-fiction novel about immortality, class, and what remains when the self splits.