karialisee.

jeremiah—the greatest guitarist in all betwixt—loves karialisee, though they’ve spent only a single night together, talking.

yaz—a.k.a. yelitza, a.k.a. tera—hopes to escape her miserable marriage to highly functional alcoholic manny and his many hypocrisies and accusations, but struggles with who she was, who she’s finding herself to have become, and who she thinks she wants to be.

dale desires a life with his secret lover but then his lover flips the script and, with wife and son in tow, dale fully embraces his new, “unique concept” future instead.

and mooney has the intention not to understand, but to exact his revenge—the unrequited lover, a moon man moving mountains amongst the meticulous and matriculated—yet he comes to understand, nevertheless.

in a world divided along party lines, borderlines, and even crop lines—yet some things never change: he allure and taboo of the black market, the “random greyweb adverts,” the power of secret knowledge and big money—leading inevitably to uprising, revolution, corruption, and the attempt to do good in the face of so much evil.