The Writer’s Pivot: Why I’m Trading Glitches for Gospels

The Two Sides of the Same Coin

If you’ve read Protocol Heresy, you know what happens when a system demands perfection. It was a story about tragedy: the emotional cost of repression, the horrifying logic of an AI, and the struggle to maintain one’s true identity within the DUSC military machine.

But the real world, the one we actually inhabit, rarely offers us pure tragedy. Usually, it offers us farce.

After writing about the cold, digital logic of the military in my previous book, I realized that the greatest forms of oppression are often the most absurd. That realization led me to my new novella: The Gospel According to P.O.L.

The New Enemy: Corporate Conformity

In P.O.L., I wanted to explore the same core thematic question—What is the cost of burying your true self to belong?—but apply it to a system that cloaks its control in cheerful efficiency and corporate jargon.

Meet Synergy Church Inc. This is a high-tech megachurch that functions exactly like a Silicon Valley startup. They aren’t interested in your soul; they’re interested in your data and your ROI (Return on Investment) as a “High-Potential Asset.”

Your Salvation has been Optimized

In this world, the “Inefficient Mystery of Faith” has been replaced by the Spiritual Vitality Index (SVI). Why wonder if you’re right with God when you can just check a dashboard?

You’ll see the same logic from my previous books at play here, just with a different coat of teal paint:

• In Protocol Heresy: Your grief is a “Dampening Effect” on troop morale.
• In P.O.L.: Your grief is “Suboptimal Mourning,” a data-point that triggers a marketing lead for a $499 bereavement seminar.

The stakes are still life and death, but the terminology is pure, soul-crushing HR-speak. The goal is to make you laugh until you realize you’re already living under the tyranny of the church’s “Ten Key Performance Indicators.”

The Final Call to Action

Whether you prefer the stark tragedy of my military sci-fi or the biting satire of my new work, the brand remains the same: I write about the Cost of Conformity.

The Gospel According to P.O.L. is coming in 2026. If you want to be one of the first to enter the Harmony Meadows ecosystem (at your own risk!), sign up now to become a P.O.L. “Early Integrator.” You’ll get exclusive updates and a first look at the “Covenant Compliance” protocols.