"How the Stars Used to Shine..."

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"Theory of Constraints: The Uncertainty Principle"©  is a work in progress.

Novel and graphic novel by Sarah Ottobre.

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The story follows emotionally complex but dysfunctional outcasts. We shadow members of a visceral metal band, a skateboarding punk with his girlfriend and newborn, a snarky angst-driven tattoo artist on the edge, and a depressive kinky physicist along his sassy ballerina wife.

 

They each begin to notice strange things around the town ranging from disappearances, horribly mutilated bodies, sinkholes swallowing neighborhoods and bizarre physical anomalies.

 

As the reader, you put together the full story through the pieces of perspective from each group of characters until they clash together for a brutal and tragic convergence.

 

The story captures the helpless mental turmoil felt by characters as they slowly become affected by a dark entity that controls them. They are resist to this force, but eventually they tragically watch themselves manipulate, kill, and devour the ones closest to them. They each fight in their own way to retain their sense of identity and humanity.

 

I use cannibalistic parasites and body horror as a metaphor for themes like bipolar disorder, addiction, identity crisis, and obsession.  It's an emotionally driven story with plenty of twists that claw into the thoughts we are too afraid to talk about. This story is for a mature audience with some very disturbing horror and adult content. 

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My sources of inspiration stem from real life scenarios from my own life that I've weaved into mythology, opera, horror, with a wicked touch of kink and class.