The 404 Documents

An excerpt from Party At The World’s End, published 2014

Party At The World’s End is a part of the Fallen Cycle universe, available now on Amazon.com

The best lies are also true.

— Gabriel De Leon

My ‘friend’ Bradley the Buyer once said to me, “If you want to get press attention, don’t write a good book. Blow up a mall.”

He was right, of course. Not that I blew up that mall. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do that kind of thing. Make a bomb? No, I was more a “theory guy.”

I was always zoning out in science class, staring at the dingy floor, thinking instead about the broken thermostat in our culture. There was clearly no self regulation. Or maybe that’s where The Buyer comes in.

I’m getting off topic, right? Because you probably want to know more about this mall/bomb scare thing which made the news, and less about the systemic dynamics of a culture. But that’s just how my mind works.

The 404 Attacks weren’t about politics. They were about physics and fate. This is my account of a bombing which never occurred, and the way it ruined my life. Maybe it’s a cautionary tale and maybe not, but I assure you at least this much — this is the truth…