Gumroad edition
The complete story as an EPUB, with the revised cover and two downloadable posters.
- Revised cover artwork
- One poster with the title treatment
- One clean poster for display
JONAS THANE / THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM
SPECULATIVE HORRORDARK SATIRE / DIGITAL ARTIFACTS
The New
American
Dream.
She escaped one destiny.
Fame wrote another.
Identity. Influence. Complicity.
The machinery that turns people into products.
SUBJECT / ATHA SCINTILLALIVESTREAMS / MESSAGES / CORPORATE RECORDSINTERNET CULTURE / COSMIC HORROR
THE STORY
When does a follower
become a believer?
A dark speculative satire blending internet culture, cosmic horror, and apocalyptic science fantasy.
Atha Scintilla’s accidental viral fame grows into a decades-long career built on reinvention, scandal, and devotion.
What her followers don’t know is that she has spent her entire life hiding something stranger: she was raised by inhuman guardians to fulfill an apocalyptic purpose she abandoned for an ordinary human life.
But escaping one script means entering another. Publicists manufacture authenticity. Fans turn vulnerability into content. Every new identity promises freedom—and gives someone else something to sell.
As her influence grows and reality begins responding to her body, the line between fandom and worship collapses. And the sister she has always treated as a sidekick may be far more important than anyone imagined.
BENEATH THE PERFORMANCE
A self to invent.
An audience to believe.
Explore the forces shaping Atha’s world.
AUTHENTICITY / REINVENTION
Even being real has a brand.
Aliases, aesthetics, relationships, public personas: Atha keeps rebuilding herself. The more carefully constructed she becomes, the more her audience rewards her for authenticity. How long can a performance continue before it replaces the person?
HOW THE STORY IS TOLD
You’re watching.
Who is choosing what you see?
Recovered livestreams. Private messages. Social-media archives. Corporate records.
CG-7 reconstructs Atha’s digital presence from surviving fragments. Public spectacle sits beside private evidence, and the record asks as many questions as it answers.
The archive is part of the story. What gets preserved? What gets omitted? And what does an audience become when it keeps watching?
FROM CHAPTER ONE
Close friends.
Recovered words.
A short fragment from the revised opening chapter.
CLOSE FRIENDS STORYVIDEO #001
[Recovered video. Approx. 4 min.]
“Okay. Apparently that’s enough vulnerability.”
“Bye, besties.”
[Recording ends.]
IDENTITYINFLUENCECOMPLICITYTHE AMERICAN DREAM
A VISUAL ENTRANCE
The face of the dream.
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Later-story artworkREVEALS STORY IMAGERY
These concepts draw on later developments in the book. Open the images when you’re ready to explore further.
CONTINUE THE STORY
The Gumroad edition.
The complete story.
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