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October Perpetua
Paperback
HorrorScience FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Jeremy Lo
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Marshall Oriente has been frozen at five years old for twenty years.
His mother gave up her body to keep him suspended. A six-month arrangement that became permanent. His hair kept growing. His body didn't. Now it hangs behind him like a crown of many textures he never asked to wear.
When October collapses, everything tears open.
Beneath St. Louis, mothers rupture from pods buried in caverns no one was supposed to find. Fathers pass through Marshall's throat like language, like ritual, like something older than cities. The violence is collective. Ecstatic. Sacrificial.
When Marshall finally speaks, seven words crack it all open. What emerges has been waiting beneath the building the whole time. Patient, plural, and hungry to be born.
Some families break. Some break open.
Dystopian thriller meets Dionysian catharsis in a novel about suspended childhoods, maternal sacrifice, and the terrible grace of what happens when a body is finally allowed to move.
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