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Crime And Punishment LA: A Modern Novel Adaptation

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When a brilliant ex-law student turns vigilante in modern-day Los Angeles, justice becomes a dangerous digital play.
Rodya Raskolnikov-once a promising law student-is trapped in debt and rage, haunted by the grim inequality he sees in the streets and online. Convinced he must act for the greater good, he makes a devastating choice: eliminate a ruthless loan shark exploiting the city's most vulnerable-all while broadcasting his motives in cryptic posts on X.com.
But in a city where every click leaves a trace, his radical act ignites a media firestorm. As an enigmatic detective closes in and public outrage spreads, Rodya's rationalizations begin to fracture. When he meets Sonya-a fierce social justice advocate with her own scars-he's forced to face the cost of his rebellion: his own humanity.
Inspired by Dostoyevsky's classic, Crime & Punishment-but set in the neon-soaked alleys of LA, where WhatsApp texts replace letters and hashtags shape fate.
Will Rodya find redemption before his foundations crumble? Or will the system devour him entirely?Public Domain

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Hollow Republic

MANILA, 2035. A yawn in the shape of a city. The air tastes like burnt plastic and broken promises. A cracked karaoke machine wails in the distance, it's singing the national anthem backwards. Somewhere, a three-star general sells sovereignty for cigarettes. The masses chant election jingles like hymns, dancing to the rhythm of their own decay. A girl is found dead in a slum, somewhere she should never have been, and nowhere anyone was supposed to look. The case does not unfold so much as it seeps: into the hands of a weary agent, into the obsessions of the dead girl's best friend, into the guilt-choked silence of a laborer who saw too much. And far from it all, in a decaying ancestral home that refuses to fall, a desperate heir seeks grace in whispered miracles. Answers are not found at the end of this story. It is a story of what is buried, and who keeps digging. ********* Book 1: Ghosts of the Living Book 2: The Feast of Knives Book 2 chapters releasing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Content Warning: Death, suicide, sexual content, substance abuse. Language: Primarily in English, with occasional dialogue in Tagalog and Chinese. Context is always provided, no need to be multilingual to follow what's happening. Setting: Near-future Manila. Genre: Political Thriller/Literary Fiction