Bathroom Blitz: Reading from #JFTRE22

Jonnie has crashed, landing rock bottom. Waking up poolside with no memory of the science demo that knocked him out—and possibly changed everything—Johnny is broke, alone, and unraveling fast. His startup scam LLC has flatlined. His love life’s a smoldering wreck. And now his mind’s starting to go, too.

His brief, electric connection with Basine Felderhossen—scientist, dominatrix, and the only person who seemed to see through his narcissistic fog—ends as quickly as it began. She’s comatose, the victim of the same bizarre tech event that leveled Jonnie. Her outrageous idea—the one she shared just before everything went sideways—is now the only card Johnny has left to play.

He has nothing. No money. No credibility. No one left to scam. But he’s not out of the game. Not yet. Driven by delusion, desperation, and the belief that the Universe is still somehow conspiring in his favor, Jonnie clings to Basine’s vision like a lifeline. Her inspiration becomes his obsession. Her brilliance, his last shot.

Fazoolie is against the wall, cornered, cracked, and forced to confront a truth he’s spent his whole life outrunning: that the bluff doesn’t work when the stakes are real, and when he has no choice left but to look himself in the eye and try not to blink. Cynical, funny, pathetic, and too self-aware for his own good, Jonnie refuses to give up, if only because he needs yet another distraction. 

The Novel

Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine

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