My Name Is Sheol

By P. Julian

My Name is Sheol is a work of literary psychological fiction that explores the fragile boundary between inner experience and consensus reality.

Che is brought to a psychiatrist by her worried mother. Che tries to explain the reality of her inner life: lucid dreams that possess coherence and emotional force, a dream-lover whose presence does not easily dissolve upon waking. What she encounters instead is clinical dismissal: her dreams are reinterpreted as symptoms and her experiences are reduced, medicated, and dismissed.

Che's is eventually drawn into the involuntary side of the mental health system-a reductionist world governed by hard scientific materialism and medical certainty. As her experiences are invalidated Che narrates her story with alternating clarity and doubt, in an environment that feels precise and yet surreal.

This novel works as an inquiry into mental illness, perception, and authority. Is Che unwell? Misunderstood? Or is she experiencing something that existing mental health frameworks cannot comprehend? The narrative remains open enough to admit supernatural possibilities while at the same time blanketing that in the unstable landscape of dreams.

Written in a restrained and lucid style, My Name is Sheol is an introspective novel rooted in interior life, societal exile, the tragedies of human love and the consequences of loving recklessly. It will appeal to readers of literary fiction who are drawn to psychological intensity, unreliable narration, and novels that treat interior experience with gravity and care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGHXW3N8
• ISBN13: 9798268917185
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"