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Fiction about attention, presence,
and the invisible cost of optimization.
Evan Lir writes fiction that refuses to be categorized. A story about addiction might become a dark romance. A story about institutional control becomes a dystopian trilogy. A story about attention becomes literary fiction. The genre serves the truth — never the other way around.
What stays constant is the obsession: the invisible forces that shape who we become. Control systems we don't see. Identities we perform. Choices that cost more than we expected. The fracture between the person we are and the person we show.
Every book starts with a question that has no clean answer. The fiction doesn't resolve it — it makes you live inside it.
Control
Who controls your choices — and what happens when you realize it?
Identity
The distance between who you are and who you pretend to be.
Cost of Choice
Every decision has a price. Some are paid in years.
Hidden Systems
The invisible structures that shape reality — and the moment
you see them.
Three Fractures — stories about people who measure everything except what matters. A notification designer, a data analyst, and a decision scientist walk into the unmeasurable.
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