AlexKorneliuk
TARTARUS
A Road Novel About the Hell We Carry Inside
He bought a ticket to Nowhere.
That was all. A tired station at 2:30 in the morning. One working ticket window. Damp asphalt. Cheap perfume. People hugging each other before the road took them away.
Then he stepped onto the bus.
The driver looked like a man who had seen too much of humanity and kept driving anyway. The route made no sense. The road kept changing. Passengers disappeared. Memories became places. Old guilt boarded without asking.
And somewhere between rain, silence, bad coffee, strange stops, and a destination no one could explain, he began to understand the worst truth of all:
Tartarus was not waiting at the end of the road.
He had been carrying it inside himself for years.
Darkly funny, strange, and painfully human, TARTARUS is an existential road novel about guilt, escape, self-deception, and the moment a man finally stops running from his own life.