alone: a novella
a hallucinatory belfast novella about psychosis, mythology, love and the end of the world
you can’t trust what he sees – you can’t entirely dismiss it either
published by button press, belfast
title: alone
author: frank martyn
publication: july 2026
ISBN: 978-1-0667837-0-0
format: paperback
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the book
a man wakes in a Belfast psychiatric hospital
he doesn’t know how long he has been there
he writes to the woman he loves, trying to reconstruct what happened. but his perception keeps folding reality into something stranger
dust becomes a civilisation
irish mythology rises from the walls
belfast becomes a landscape of memory, violence and ghosts
the devil in a bar brings news of an approaching apocalypse
a fungus is eating its way through humanity
and somewhere beneath the hallucination is a question he cannot esca
what, if anything, can still be trusted?
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alone is a genre-defiant novella which draws on lived experience of psychosis, transforming hallucinations and delusions into fiction, mythology and a literary narrative
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