Lost Good Luck
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Completed, First published Jun 26, 2026

This novel follows two men, Louis and Harry, navigating the aftermath of separation. The initial chapters reveal a profound sense of loss and suppressed emotion as each man mechanically endures daily routines. Memories resurface – particularly of shared rituals, like a pre-stage kiss, now lost to distance. Both men privately grapple with grief and loneliness, haunted by vivid recollections of their time together. The narrative traces the weight of absence, exploring how even simple morning routines, once filled with connection, now feel incomplete. These chapters hint at a deep, fractured relationship and the struggle to cope with its unraveling.
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A suffocating stillness clings to the crumbling estate of Blackwood Manor, where whispers of inherited madness and manufactured desires coil like smoke around the brittle bones of its last inhabitants. The air hangs thick with the scent of lilies and something acrid, something *new* – the scent of molded perfection, of faces smooth as porcelain, yet hollowed by an emptiness that mirrors the decay within the manor’s walls. Young Alistair Finch arrives seeking respite, lured by tales of his aunt’s peculiar philanthropy, but finds himself instead swallowed by a society obsessed with ‘refinement.’ Here, beauty is not born, but *constructed*. Faces are remade, personalities reshaped with a chilling precision, all under the watchful gaze of Aunt Isolde, whose smile is as flawless as it is predatory. Alistair discovers the manor’s guests are not merely indulging in vanity, but submitting to a procedure – a sculpting of flesh and will – that promises eternal youth and flawless form. But beneath the polished surfaces, cracks begin to appear. The garden, a labyrinth of sculpted hedges and glass flowers, holds a dark secret: discarded ‘shells’ of those who failed to meet Isolde’s impossible standards. Alistair finds himself drawn to Clara, a woman haunted by fragments of a life she no longer remembers, her eyes mirroring the vacant stare of the mannequins that populate the manor’s shadowed halls. As Alistair unravels the truth, he discovers the price of perfection is not merely beauty, but the very essence of self. The plastic age is not an era of renewal, but of extinction, where humanity is slowly, meticulously, *molded* into oblivion.