{"product_id":"still-here-9798195437299","title":"Still Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jason Buss\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBT - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe watches. He classifies. He allows.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe system has been watching him for much longer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy day, he moderates content for a platform that never sleeps - reviewing, annotating, classifying an endless feed of bodies and behavior, deciding in fractions of a second what gets to exist and what disappears. He has learned to observe without participating. To maintain distance. To keep the thin membrane between witness and subject intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy night, he moves through apartments that all have the same bed, the same lamp, the same angle of light - meeting men who feel familiar in ways he can't locate, whose hands find the scar on his arm with a certainty that shouldn't be possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe tells himself the two lives don't touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe system knows otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer psychological horror novel about surveillance, identity, and the particular kind of dissociation that develops in people who have learned that observation is safer than presence. Structured as a digital interface - queue, feed, private messages, archive, camera - the novel follows its unnamed protagonist as the boundary between his professional role and his private life begins to dissolve, and something in the system begins to recognize him in ways that precede memory, precede record, precede the self he believes himself to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who have ever used invisibility as survival. For readers who know what it costs to be seen - and what it costs not to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe horror isn't that something is hunting you.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe horror is that it already knows you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969510523031,"sku":"9798195437299","price":845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195437299.webp?v=1782922136","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/still-here-9798195437299","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}