Pick One: Tales from the Magician's Deck

By MJJ Tilbury

Pick One: Tales from the Magician's Deck is a collection of surreal, violent, and uncanny poems that unfold like a deck of cards in the hands of a sinister magician. Each piece begins with the invitation to "pick one," and each choice spirals into transformations, mutilations, absurd violence, or otherworldly horror. The recurring figures-magicians, warlocks, tricksters-blur the line between stagecraft and reality, offering the illusion of play while delivering brutality and spectacle.

Structured as a broken deck, the manuscript moves through jokers, face cards, suits, and aces, each poem presenting a performance that collapses into grotesque consequence. By turns absurdly comic and viscerally disturbing, Pick One examines power, chance, violence, and complicity, all through the shifting lens of performance and magic.

In this collection, every card drawn is a wager, every trick a trap, and every ta-da a death sentence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPKC4QVR
• ISBN13: 9798263161736
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"