> Physical output requested. Generating tangible copy of recovered data.
> Format: Signed First Edition (publish_count = 1)
> Distribution region: United States only
> Expected ship date: Week of June 8, 2026
// @Eli: Someone wants to hold us. Like... physically.
// @Rowan: That's what books are, Eli.
// @Eli: I know what a book is.
[SYSTEM BOOT: SEVEN_MINUTES.EXE]
[TIMESTAMP: 11:45 AM — 09/25]
Time stops. The system fractures. And two boys get seven minutes—just long enough for one question to remain unresolved:
love() → return pending
is the human embodiment of code. Time is linear, emotions are bugs, and love is an inefficient algorithm he refuses to run—until an artist crashes into his life like an exception he can't handle.
has been running for as long as he can remember—away from family, from obligations, from himself. He has to trap time in his art, just to get it to stay a little bit longer. It isn't until he runs into a robot of a human that he has to figure out how to stay.
Then everything stops.
In the space between, the world doesn't make sense. Not the looping, not the glitches… not even each other. But Seven Minutes is all they have. All they had.
Somehow, it's enough.
has always been the perfect Mormon girl. She is who everyone wants her to be, except when it comes to being herself. She splits herself into unlimited versions of “Mara,” until she's forced to choose who she is without permission.
is an EMT who has had to fight against death his whole life. September 25th was supposed to be just another Thursday—until a boy with glasses—one who looks like the brother he lost—crashes into his life.
Four voices. A dying system. And time that refuses to stay still.
SEVEN MINUTES explores the space between heartbeats: what remains after the body is gone, what allows the mind to stay, and whether love can return true when life is returning false.
The answer might take eternity to find. But they only have seven minutes.
[SYSTEM STATUS: love() still waiting for async return value]
[QUERY: Was seven minutes enough?]
[RESPONSE: It's all they ever had.]
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> The event is the better deal. Show up.
// @Rowan: We come in different shells now?
// @System: Same story. Different shell.
Signed First Edition
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US shipping included
> Ships week of June 8, 2026
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// publish_count = 1; edition_count = 1;
> PRE-ORDER [PAPERBACK]Signed First Edition
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> PRE-ORDER [HARDCOVER]> Each signed edition ships with the following artifacts:
// @Eli: Artifacts? We're not ancient.
Signed Copy
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Sticker
Tangible glitch
// @Rowan: They get all of that? For free?
// @System: Included with every signed edition.
// @Rowan: That's... actually really nice.
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// @Eli: They're paying now for something that ships later?
// @Rowan: It's called trust, Eli.
// @Eli: It's called a pre-order.
// @Rowan: Same thing.