Literary Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Neurodivergent Noir
HappinessUnintentional
A self-help story executed poorly.
A noir about masking, exploitation, and the particular cruelty of a self-help book that was never written for a mind like his.
L. C. Dialogos
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★★★★★5.0 on Amazon"Dialogos gives us Alex Breisburg: a man who catalogues the world down to the exact chime frequency of a smoke detector. What sets this book apart is how genuinely it captures an AuDHD experience. It doesn't treat neurodivergence as a gimmick or pander to tired tropes."
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A Noir About a Debt That Won't Stop Growing
Alex Breisburg didn't see it coming. He never does. The diagnosis came thirty years too late to help him read a room.
So when a fight about money ends with his wife on the kitchen floor, he has no idea what to call what just happened. An accident. A confession. The first entry in a ledger that won't stop growing.
His best friend knows a guy. The guy knows a woman named J.P.: sharp, expensive, and very good at turning a favor into a lifetime subscription. Her price escalates. So does what she is.
By the time Alex understands what he's become, he's lost whole days to the bottle, is missing memories he doesn't trust, and has done something he can't undo. There is no clean ending waiting for him. There is only the next person willing to explain, patiently, exactly what he owes.
Happiness Unintentional is a noir about masking, exploitation, and the particular cruelty of a self-help book that was never written for a mind like his.
Funny in places you will feel bad about laughing at.
"A system can make you better, and it can make you disappear, and Alex cannot tell which one is happening to him."
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A noir for people who have been told they are too much and not enough in the same week.