The Book That Read Me - Six Surreal Encounters

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Book That Read Me </em>by Anthony Maccini </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is a mind bending fusion of psychological thriller surreal metafiction and philosophical sci fi. Six extraordinary stories push reality to breaking point exploring fractured identity the illusion of free will and the fragile boundary between the real and the imagined.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Zigzag</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a man's life is rewritten by a sinister book-and a shadowy double who wants to erase him.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Doubles</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> plunges into a claustrophobic city where everyone hides behind coats and hats and individuality dissolves in the crowd.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Lottery Ticket</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a destitute soul wins £200 million revealing how society values wealth above humanity.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Echoes </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>follows a grieving bureaucrat haunted by ghostly visions of himself as love and escape clash with the possibility of fate.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Interview</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> delivers a ferocious attack on Britain's welfare system exposing how institutions dehumanise and criminalise the vulnerable.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Zoo</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> time bends cruelly trapping strangers across centuries in a cosmic experiment run by higher powers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With shades of Kafka Orwell and Philip K. Dick Maccini blends dystopia magical realism and existential dread into a relentless exploration of what it means to be human in an indifferent universe. Each tale is a mirror-sometimes cracked sometimes clear-reflecting the self you recognise and the stranger you fear you might become.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dazzling disturbing and darkly thought provoking <em>The Book That Read Me</em> will change the way you think about reality-if reality is even real at all.</strong></p>