Twenty Ways to Lie to Yourself

Thought-provoking philosophical fiction. Psychological literary fiction. Dark, dialogue-driven stories about guilt, grief, trauma, identity, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive. There's a voice in your head that won't let you hide. In this collection, that voice has a face. Across twenty existential, emotionally layered stories, ordinary people at their breaking points find themselves seated across from a figure who calls himself the Devil. Sometimes he's calm. Sometimes cruel. Sometimes unsettlingly compassionate. Always precise. These aren't stories of temptation. They are conversations. Conversations about: Free will and the illusion of control Inherited trauma and parentification Moral self-deception and self-licensing Grief that fractures identity The social construction of truth AI ethics and unintended consequences The masks we wear until they fuse to our faces Each story is grounded in psychological research and philosophical inquiry, transformed into intimate, dialogue-d