Performance Review

A limited print run, numbered and signed.

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If only Dra were real. But Dra is Tim, a young man on a CitTech gig contract working a dead-end job at the Southern Free Republic Department of Health for a boss with a rifle across his back. But that's no problem, because the job pays the bills for Tim to spend his evenings entertaining fans of a popular fantasy virtual-reality role playing gameshow as the evasive assassin Dra. Then one day he logs on to play-act from his decaying apartment and discovers his headset’s virtual assistant addressing a stranger, Violet Sisu. As he investigates, his carefully packaged life begins to spiral out of control .

Binaural beats twist together with polyleather headsets, thundering storms, distant databases, and isopods swarming over decaying infrastructure to explore trans isolation and grief, dissociation and derealization, the fragility of state control, the cyclic nature of progress, and what perseverance means when one’s identity is erased.

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84 pages, 5.5" x 8.5"