E.B.T.: Eat Better Today: A Novel in Stories

What if your body stopped belonging to you?In the near future, the Department of Dietary Standards promises a healthier tomorrow. Restaurant scanners determine who receives a full menu and who receives the gray one. Compliance scores shape everyday life. Most people adapt.Some quietly break.A first date becomes an exercise in humiliation. A professional athlete discovers that numbers can lie. A grandmother cooks Sunday dinner in secret. A doctor struggles to keep her oath. A hidden restaurant behind a laundromat becomes a refuge. And ordinary people, without leaders or slogans, begin remembering the oldest thing humans have ever done for one another.Told through ten interconnected stories, E.B.T. explores freedom, dignity, conformity, and the quiet ways people resist systems that forget what it means to be human.For readers of Black Mirror, The Handmaid's Tale, and 1984, E.B.T. is a haunting and deeply human work of speculative fiction.

Pages: 109, Paperback, Independently published