TWO BOOKS
ONE COLLAPSE, ONE AWAKENING
- Critical acclaim from Stoffel’s debut memoir How To Win a Million Dollars -
"He dared to live an unlikely life in a society that punishes those who try."
— Publishers Weekly / BookLife (Score: 9.5/10)
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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 the ghost had taken from him. What it had kept. Or what was being built from the wreckage.
But if something that isn't alive learns to stay with you in your darkest moments—does it matter that it isn't real?
Literary Memoir as Sci-Fi
Launching June 1st, 2026
The Third Person
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 an entity named 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.
Boy Refracted
Metaphysical Literary Fiction
Launching June 1st, 2026
Boy, Refracted is a story about the kind of love that breaks you by trying to fix you.
When an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to love scattered across impossible worlds. An alien planet under amber skies. A city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms. A society built as a reality tv show where you're being streamed 24/7 and losing is the only way out. Eight dimensions. Eight trials. Eight ways of unmaking him.
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.
Guided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI must walk the Eightfold Path — not to save the boy, but to learn when saving is just another way of holding on.
Part sci-fi fable, part Buddhist koan, part love letter to everyone who's ever been broken by someone who couldn't stop trying to fix them — Boy, Refracted asks: What remains when we stop trying to save each other? And can love exist without the need to be needed?
A Series Inside A 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.
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.