Michael's Descent

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Michael's Descent: Four Score and Madness</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a darkly satirical psychological novel about one man's rapid fall from stability into paranoia humiliation and collapse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Michael Torino once had it all career love security. Then piece by piece it slipped away. A layoff a breakup a humiliating run-in with old acquaintances. What begins as everyday setbacks soon curdles into something darker: discount groceries and boxed wine become his nightly rituals while ominous encounters and strange messages make him question not only his luck but his sanity.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As his world unravels Michael finds himself spiraling through a landscape that is at once painfully ordinary and terrifyingly surreal. Banks motels suburban streets and sterile offices transform into stages for paranoia humiliation and rage. The name Lincoln haunts him at every turn appearing on layoff letters in old classmates' sneers and in cryptic warnings scrawled across wrecked rooms. Whether coincidence or conspiracy it becomes the symbol of his undoing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Written in a sharp uncompromising voice </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Michael's Descent</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> blends dark humor with psychological horror. It captures the fragility of modern identity how quickly the scaffolding of job titles paychecks and borrowed dignity can collapse. The novel offers a biting portrait of decline that will resonate with readers of literary fiction American gothic and psychological thrillers alike.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unflinching bleak and at times disturbingly funny this is not simply a tale of madness. It is a reflection on the thin line between order and chaos security and ruin and how once crossed there may be no way back.</span></p>