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Espresso at the End of Time
Paperback
Publisher: Jeremy Jameson
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a city so industrial it breathes through a rusted ventilator and treats sunshine as a zoning violation, Tadeo Pendelton is a man with a singular, caffeine-fueled mission: defending a sentient, moody espresso machine from a government that views culture as a clerical error.
Welcome to the grim, aqueous reality of Espresso at the End of Time, where the streets don't just leak-they sob-and the local architecture has the structural integrity of a wet biscuit. Tadeo's shop, held together by stubbornness and copper wire, is the last place a citizen can get a drink that doesn't taste like a dissolved battery.
His nemesis? Rogelio, a man who wears a suit so expensive it has its own zip code and who views the city's collapse as an exciting restructuring opportunity. Rogelio wants to replace Tadeo's soul with a vending machine that serves grey sludge and corporate slogans. Meanwhile, Ximena, a structural engineer whose anxiety has its own gravitational pull, is convinced the shop is moments away from becoming a very expensive anchor.
Espresso at the End of Time is a bitingly satirical industrial noir about pressure, integrity, and the realization that when the world finally flushes itself down the drain, the last thing you want is a bad cup of coffee.
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