AE039
NEW FAITH
100 pages
Perfect Bound (B&W inside)
4.25" x 6.87"
Short Stories by Terence Hannum
Design by Keith Utech
THIS IS A PREORDER AND WILL SHIP IN AUGUST, ALL PREORDERS WILL IMMEDIATELY RECEIVE A SMALL SHORT SAMPLE STORY "ARCA DEORUM", AS A SMALL ZINE (AE039.5), FOLLOWED SHORTLY BY THE COLLECTION
NEW FAITH
A scripture for the synthetic age.
A theology composed from failed transmissions, broken systems, and dying stars.
In a future built from the shattered scaffolds of lost religions and fractured technologies, New Faith by Terence Hannum explores the ecstasy and horror of spiritual mutation. This speculative collection assembles confessions, scriptures, neurotheological treatises, and devotional artifacts excavated from the ruins of belief. Spanning two books—Scriptures and Artifacts—this hybrid work of speculative theology and experimental narrative gathers lost sermons, cultic elegies, corrupted revelations, and the digitized dreams of extinct believers.
Sample:
"I cracked the ampule, inhaling the glowing contents. A new reality surged to my mind, fully formed yet fragmented. I stood at the edge of the tent revival during the 67th Great Awakening, the pastor shredding her own garments on the white stage, she called to me, me, intoning in a gravelly voice the words of the past as her overweight form writhed beneath the rolling rainbow gobos to the soundtrack of this new faith.
Many gods. Gods of all the small things and big things. Gods of tears and keyboards, gods who undermined the greater and ancient gods, gods upon gods who were both behind the technology and the technology itself. Gods of treachery and lucidity.
My soul leapt at this – a new mutation of faith in practice, hallucinating eternally the noise and the praise necessary for a time when mankind had beliefs. All religion is a hope for the past to be worthy of our unideal present."
TERENCE HANNUM is a Baltimore based writer, musician and visual artist. His writing has appeared on Motherboard, Full Bleed, LampLight and other presses. His work has been collected in OUR DEAD AGE and the novellas ALL INTERNAL, FINAL DAYS and BENEATH THE REMAINS.