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A Good Man, Temporarily
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Alana Jordan Hiby
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Hersh Pym is a masterpiece of hollow efficiency, a corporate liquidator who treats empathy like a bacterial infection-until he actually catches one. Colonized by a golden parasite that metabolizes his beautiful rage into a sickening, sticky benevolence, Hersh is forced into a humiliating performance of sainthood while New York City dissolves into a groveling hive mind. Trapped in a body that violently demands he hug the unwashed and weep for the mundane, he must navigate a landscape of toxic positivity to reclaim the sanctuary of his own selfishness. This is a study in the horror of connection, asking whether the soul is anything more than a chemical imbalance waiting to be corrected.
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