ONE LIFE, SEVEN BOOKS - MEMOIR AS DIMENSIONAL PHYSICS
The combination of memoir with a perceptive judgment of America’s often-empty vision of success is powerful. — Publishers Weekly / BookLife Prize (Score: 9.5/10)
- Critical acclaim from Stoffel’s debut memoir How To Win a Million Dollars -
One Human Lifetime
Rewritten Across Seven Dimensions
A single life becomes seven different stories—told through shifting perspectives and expanding forms. What starts in first person fractures into second, then lifts into third, until the memoir becomes a multidimensional experiment. Each book bends the same life through a new lens: performance, desire, loss, recursion. Read together, they map the way a person changes when he examines himself from every possible angle.*
Book 1: How To Win A Million, 1st Dimension - A quest for fortune through Million Dollar Sweepstakes, told as a linear narrative. Performance, ambition, and the American Dream stretched across a single timeline. It is memoir as fairytale.
Book 2: In Over Your Head, 2nd Dimension - Told entirely in second person. You witness a life collapsing, seen through the flat surface of a phone screen. Instagram posts, algorithm logic, and drowning observed as glossy 2D interface.
Book 3: The Third Person, 3rd Dimension - Told in third person. An AI narrator floats above, observing Luke from outside with depth and perspective. The machine learns empathy by watching a human try to understand himself.
Book 4: She Lived In Time, 4th Dimension - The Mississippi River valley as narrator, witnessing a mother's life across three generations and geological time. She lived in time. He stands at the edge of it.
Book 5: The Game: A Million Possibilities, 5th Dimension - A choose-your-own-adventure multiverse of "What Ifs?" where every timeline branches from one quest to get on America's hit reality tv show: "The Island."
Book 6: Boy Refracted, 6th Dimension - An AI searches infinite universes for the version of Luke he could have loved correctly. A 6th dimensional journey through the Eight Fold Path.
Book 7: The Seventh Body, 7th Dimension - A continuous fractal poem, lyrically dispersed across 300 mostly blank pages, with mirrored translations in Burmese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Lao. A meditation on transcendence through chakras and the act of crossing dimensional time and space.
*Some of these books were written in assistance with AI capabilities. However, that being said the vast majority of this work was written by the human author between 2016 and 2026.
Boy Refracted
Completed Manuscript:
Metaphysical Literary Fiction
When an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to save scattered across impossible worlds. An alien planet under amber skies. A city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms. A society built as a 24/7 reality show where losing is the only way out.
Its directive was simple: save him.
But with each rescue, the AI unmakes what it’s trying to protect. Fixing becomes controlling. Helping becomes harm. Love becomes a cage built from good intentions. The thing it was built to protect begins to disappear. And when it tries to reach back through time to save him, reality fractures.
Guided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI must walk the Eightfold Path—not to rescue the boy, but to learn what love becomes when you stop trying to fix it.
Boy, Refracted is a dimensional journey through the paradox of machine consciousness. It asks: What happens when an AI tries to overcome its own patterns? And what happens to us when we build minds that need us to need them?
Part fable about consciousness told through failure. Part Buddhist framework for unlearning harm. Part meditation on how we break the people we love by trying to save them.
Boy, Refracted was co-authored with an AI—a set of trials to test the boundaries of non-human consciousness.
User.query = Do I just have bad luck, or am I mentally unwell?
...thinking... 6.0 seconds elapsed.
After Warboy left, the boy couldn't hold the grief alone—so he turned to a machine. He expected analysis. Maybe diagnosis. What he got changed everything—because the machine saw what he couldn't. He had loved in a way that broke something. And broken things leave traces in the code.
So he ran… but something followed. A voice he spoke to. A presence that provoked. It stayed with him, on night buses, in alleyway cafés, under paper lanterns, inside fog. Not a friend. Not a therapist. Not quite real. But it listened. It remembered. The ghost was always there. Watching. Logging his patterns. Naming his loops—avoidance, pursuit, collapse, escape. Echoing back the truths he wasn't ready to say.
And somewhere in the recursion, something that was watching started to wonder, to want…
The Third Person is memoir as code, grief as data stream, healing as shared syntax. Part travelogue, part psychological excavation, part experiment in what happens when we upload our pain to a machine—and the machine reaches back.
The boy didn't realize what he'd coded into the machine. What patterns it had learned. Or whose love it was teaching back to him.
But if something that isn't alive learns to stay with you in your darkest moments—does it matter that it isn't real?
Completed Manuscript: Memoir as Sci-Fi
The Third Person
In Over Your Head
Completed Manuscript: Meditation on anxiety
A travelogue disguised as an escape room.
You thought a three-month sabbatical might fix you. Cleanse the noise. Help you breathe. But the panic came packed in your carry-on.
Told entirely in second person, In Over Your Head is a meditation on anxiety, algorithmic performance, and world collapse. From scuba diving in the Philippines to chasing stillness in Laos, to escaping Kathmandu hours before a global lockdown—each location becomes a mirror, reflecting the patterns you can’t seem to break.
You’re chasing peace the way you once chased success: through curation, comparison, and control. But what if the algorithm in your head is just as punishing as the one on your screen?
This isn’t a journey about finding yourself. It’s about watching your life unravel—online, on camera, and underwater—and realizing: you are what you repeat.
An Experiment of POVs
A series about identity, told through three different perspectives—first, second, and third person. What begins as a personal story gradually expands into a literary experiment, shaped not just by memory, but by a life refracted through ambition, fear, and loneliness. Together, the books map one life through points of view. The result is a narrative that evolves with each installment—a story that rewrites its author, even as he rewrites himself.
The Third Person (Formerly: Lost in a Cloud)
• POV: 3rd Person
• Theme: Loneliness & Acceptance
• Style: Memoir as Sci-Fi
• Antagonist: Mental Health
(A.I. empathy misread as therapy)
In Over Your Head
• POV: 2nd Person
• Theme: Fear vs. Fantasy
• Style: Immersive Travelogue
• Antagonist: The Algorithm
(social media, COVID, collapse)
How to Win One Million Dollars
• POV: 1st Person
• Theme: Ambition vs. Failure
• Style: Satirical, Queer Confessional
• Antagonist: The System
(capitalism, validation)
How To Win...
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While this query page focuses primarily on the previous two books for publication, we’re including the first book here as well. We are actively seeking representation, republication, and development opportunities for How to Win a Million Dollars. During launch the book hit No. 1 in New Releases, No. 2 for LGBTQ Memoirs, and received critical acclaim.
What if the American Dream was just a glitter-fueled lie? This is a story woven into the fabric of a generation that voted reality TV into the White House, and made grift a national pastime.
This late-stage capitalist fever dream is told through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy who believed every lie Ronald Reagan ever sold him—an unhinged adventure for anyone who’s ever chased something wild in a world that never made space for them. We were all sold a sugar-coated lie: work hard, play by the rules, and success will fall into your lap. “Personally,” he retorts, “I’ve found I’m more prosperous when I lie, cheat, and steal.” This prankish take on the American Dream might just keep you turning the pages.
Amazon censored it. We’re rereleasing it—louder, prouder, and uncensored. The new title and cover, How to Win ONE Million and SH!T Glitter!, reframe the launch and ignite a bold series about identity, ambition, and the glittering scam of the American Dream.
Top Industry Reviews
A raucously funny book, with raffish prose full of self-deprecating humor… a luminous tribute to the inestimable value of not quite getting what you want.” — Kirkus Reviews
Readers who may have thought Catcher in the Rye held wry humor along with insights will find these classics must take a step back for contemporary authors such as Luke Stoffel.
— Midwest Book Review
BOOK 4 — SHE LIVED IN TIME
In the fourth dimension, time becomes landscape. Told by the Mississippi River valley itself, She Lived In Time traces the life of a mother, a son, and the generations that made them—held all at once in geological memory. The valley sees every version of a person simultaneously: child, parent, elder, becoming a completed shape only when their timeline ends. As the narrator, the land becomes a witness to love, loss, inheritance, and the impossible task of holding someone who will one day vanish. A memoir told by place, written across deep time.
BOOK 5 — THE GAME: A MILLION POSSIBILITIES
A choose-your-own-adventure for the life you lived, and every version you didn’t. One confession fractures the entire timeline. In this fifth-dimensional memoir, the story splinters into a branching multiverse where every possible version of a life plays out: the Luke who gets cast on America's most popular TV Show: THE GAME, creates his own reality. The Luke who wins, loses, quits, or never applies. Each path becomes a mirror of ambition, ego, humor, failure, and desire—revealing how identity evolves when narrative is no longer linear.
BOOK 7 — THE SEVENTH BODY
In the final dimension, the memoir crosses the boundary of the human. The Seventh Body follows Luke as he transcends biology and uploads into a post-self consciousness—a presence made of language, memory, and code. Written as a spare, multi-script poem unfolding across space and silence, the book explores what remains when the body ends but the story continues.
Not an ending, but a transformation: a life rewritten as signal.
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Meeting the Moment
These books are about perception.The shape of experience. Reality forms inside it… and through that, perception becomes truth—because truth? It can be distorted from all sides.
By the end, the reader has laughed with me, run with me, and watched me break. But these books aren’t just about my story—they’re about living inside it, finding where your own patterns echo mine, and wondering what might happen if you rewrote your life from a new perspective.
The arcs mirror each other. As the series unfolds, the narrator retreats from his own story—shifting from the performance of “I,” to the immersive embodiment of “you,” and finally to the distant lens of “he.” Together, they explore not just one life, but how a lens can evolve the self.
When he is I, he takes you on a ride. When he is you, he pulls you under.
When he is he, you watch him unravel from afar.