Garden Scheme; Or a Triptych Novel Thesis Suicide Note

A lowly writer wants to change his life for the better, but prior to that he writes a short story about a dragon destroying a village, but is eventually slayed by a dragon. the writer sleeps, but the next time we see him he is integrated inside the setting of the story he wrote, with the village transformed into a contemporary fictional Filipino city, with a long history about a dragon killing half the city, with its survivors making up the existing population, and a prophesy of the city's salvation from the dragon's "creator".

this story is a grand exploration of the complex relationships between history, science, religion, trauma, on a city as a playing field between its inhabitants and their creator.