Progeny

By Internecio Pulicorum

In the frozen gut of Minnesota, endocrinologist Ethan Voss stitches a legacy from corpses and canine scraps--Rox, a 6'5" trans human-dog hybrid, born of hubris and hormones, clawing free from a Minneapolis basement lab. ZNN journalist Nate Carver chases the scoop, nicotine-stained and unraveling, through snow-choked alleys and punk dives like St. Paul's Hexagon Bar, where Rox reigns as a king of freaks, their growl a hymn against the void. Lila Hensley, Ethan's fiancée, is the collateral--soft, quilt-wrapped, caught in a slaughterhouse climax at an abandoned Hormel factory, blood on the kill floor, daisies crushed. What begins as a biotech nightmare spirals into a sprawling, non-linear howl through modern life's meat grinder--2010's screens, Twitter's hum, the pain of living in a world that grinds purpose to dust. Ethan's quest for progeny, Rox's rage for identity, and Nate's descent into the existential vacuum collide in a tale of creation and collapse, legacy and loss, all rendered in prose as dense and jagged as the Twin Cities' winter. From Uptown's gentrified sheen to Hormel's rusted ruin, Progeny is a visceral, digressive plunge into the hollow hum of being alive--where monsters are made, myths are born, and the void stares back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5M13KM5
• ISBN13: 9798280417816
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 57 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"