Your ex won’t leave you alone. What do you do?
What do you do when your ex calls you ten times a day? When your ex keeps accidentally bumping into you in public? When your ex shows up at your house in the middle of the night with a guitar and a mouth reeking of beer… and starts singing you soppy love songs?
That’s what happens when you tell the universe to fuck off.
The universe comes back at you. It stalks you. Relentlessly. Shoving itself in your face, bumping into you when you least expect it, and making your life a living hell.
You can swat the universe away, you can lock yourself in a room and crawl into a sack and hide under a table but the universe will find you. It will taunt you and threaten you. And the moment you crawl out from your secret hiding place, it will swarm at you.
Until you do what the universe demands of you.
Chief Marketing Officer at a casino, Viktor Redreich had once written a book that got way too popular way too quickly. So popular that it turned his readers into crazy fangirls doing increasingly extreme things to get his attention.
He’d deleted the book, shut the whole thing down, and peace and quiet was restored.
Until the universe found new ways to bother him.
Coded messages on billboards demanding that he write another book. Whispers among strangers on the streets ordering him to pick up his fountain pen and scribble out one more tale. A fortune cookie in an American-Chinese restaurant instructing him to “dedicate your life to telling stories.”
It was obvious what Viktor needed to do. There was no other option. Viktor had to see a psychiatrist.
He didn’t though. Instead, he got to work on his next book.
Late one Friday evening after he’d gotten home from a boozy work meeting in a bar, Viktor kicked off his shoes, loosened his tie, rolled up his sleeves, sat at the rosewood desk in his home office, switched on the green lamp and began writing in a leather-bound notebook.
By Monday morning he’d finished writing the first draft of his 2nd book: Seducing a Married Man.
Two weeks later, he’d written his third book, Daddy Fixation, and a month later he quit his job.
It was time to dedicate his life to telling stories.