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A comic science-fiction novel about cosmic bureaucracy, runaway paperwork, and a story that slowly realises it is being read.
Dean Hollister wakes on an ordinary Monday to find a glowing blue sphere pulsing gently on his kitchen table. Before he can finish his tea, the universe informs him, with admirable bureaucracy and very little tact, that he is now required to participate in an interdimensional apology.
The Department of Existence Reconciliation is not an enlightened realm. It is an infinite office of squeaking linoleum, exhausted fluorescent lights, and filing cabinets tall enough to develop their own weather. Here, every irregularity in reality is logged, assessed, misplaced, rediscovered, and occasionally apologised for.
Paired with Nora, whose presence stabilises spacetime but not her patience; Jillex, a probability engineer who bottles coincidences; and Korl, an administrator devoted to procedure beyond reason, Dean must pursue a misfiled memo capable of quietly rewriting existence itself.
Along the way, they encounter duplicate Tuesdays, rogue footnotes seeking union recognition, vending machines on emotional sabbatical, and a universe that would quite like someone to tidy up after it.
Meanwhile, beyond the edge of the page, the manuscript begins developing opinions of its own. Chapters rearrange themselves. Appendices appear uninvited. The author is drawn into an increasingly unequal negotiation over who, precisely, is telling the story.
At heart, The Interdimensional Apology Initiative is a humorous and unexpectedly tender exploration of responsibility, bureaucracy, and the quiet power of saying sorry in a universe held together by fragile connections.
Tea helps. Obviously.
A brief administrative note:
Chapter Twelve has escaped the book and taken up temporary residence here.
It would appreciate visitors.