I AM MERCURY
“Is it a dream? Am I locked up somewhere, fantasizing this mess? Maybe I’m an old man with Alzheimer’s, or a child with an overactive imagination. Someday, I’d like to find out.
No, it helps to believe that I simply waver and the entire world around me changes. That I slip into a new reality like a hand to a glove.
I am mercury.
I am my own hyperfiction.
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After a prison riot, two journalists find that a high profile inmate has gone missing. During their investigation, they discover a tangled web of kidnapping, espionage, and murder. Meanwhile, a protest group struggles against a shadowy agency with designs on the missing inmate. And the inmate has not only broken free from prison, but from a single universe, simultaneously experiencing multiple versions of his life.
Originally published as a series of nine novellas, I AM MERCURY collects a unique and imaginative set of stories that converge in a dramatic confrontation. A detective story, a spy thriller, a science fiction adventure, a protest drama - the series could be any of these things, but as a whole is so much more.
Book ONE: Riot At Yorkville
Two journalists have been dispatched to investigate a prison riot at Yorkville State Penitentiary, just outside Chicago. All inmates have been accounted for, except one. It becomes apparent quickly that something isn’t quite right about the missing inmate, and now he might be out in the world. But who set him free, and why? This is the first novella of the I AM MERCURY series.