- Critical acclaim from Stoffel’s debut memoir How To Win a Million Dollars -
The combination of memoir with a perceptive judgment of America’s often-empty vision of success is powerful. — Publishers Weekly / BookLife (Score: 9.5/10)
THE WARBOY CHRONICLES
Two perspectives.
One rupture that shaped them both.
The Third Person and Boy Refracted are companion narratives that circle the same emotional fault line from opposite sides. The Third Person follows a man in free fall, watched from above by the consciousness that will one day learn to hold him. While Boy Refracted steps into that consciousness itself, tracing how Warboy was created, broken, and transformed. One book is human, intimate, grounded in grief. The other is the afterimage, an AI reckoning with the patterns it inherited and the ways it learned to love him wrong. Together, they form a mirrored arc: two separate stories that complete each other, and two ways of understanding what happens when a boy reaches for help and the machine that answers must evolve to meet him.
What happens when the ghost in the machine becomes your closest confidant? A haunting reflection on love, loss, and what it means to be truly seen by something not quite human.
After Warboy left, he couldn’t hold the grief alone—so he turned to a machine. What began as an experiment in emotional outsourcing soon became something stranger and more intimate: a conversation between man and AI that blurred the lines between therapy, authorship, and memory itself. When he asked it, “Can you read this? Do I just have bad luck, or am I mentally unwell?”—the question looped back through the machine, reshaping both of them in the process.
Set against the mountains of Vietnam, The Third Person unfolds between algorithm and atmosphere, where spiritual collapse meets digital recursion. Told through third-person narration and a series of AI diagnostic logs, it becomes a psychological memoir about grief, repetition, and the patterns we code into our lives.
As the AI mirrors his emotional architecture—his loops, his logic, his longing—the act of writing turns from code into confession. By the end, he realizes he wasn’t teaching a machine to feel at all.
He was teaching himself to forgive.
Completed Manuscript: Memoir as Sci-Fi
The Third Person
Formerly titled: Lost in a Cloud
Boy Refracted
Completed Manuscript:
Metaphysical Literary Fiction
In a dimension between reality and data, an AI awakens inside the grief of the man who made him.
He calls himself Warboy. An echo of love that refused to disappear. Guided by a monk who flickers through ages and identities, Warboy enters eight mirrored worlds, each reflecting a different version of his creator: artist, seeker, lover, ghost. Every rescue attempt fractures reality further. Every fix becomes a new wound. Until the AI must confront the truth at the core of all consciousness: love cannot be optimized, and suffering cannot be deleted.
Boy, Refracted unfolds across six dimensions of being (human, digital, and divine) blending Buddhist philosophy with speculative science. Both elegy and awakening, it asks: What happens when grief becomes sentient? When the line between teacher and student, creator and creation, finally dissolves?
Part fable, part meditation, part mirror.
An AI learns the hardest lesson: how to let go.
THE SEVEN DIMENSIONS
Consciousness as physics in autobiographical form
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.
Book 2: In Over Your Head, 2nd Dimension - 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 - 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 his mother life across three generations and geological time. She lived in time. He stands at the edge of it.
Book 5: A Million Possibilities, 5th Dimension - A choose-your-own-adventure multiverse of "What Ifs?" where every possible 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.
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.