Writing

Suffer the Children

A deeply human story of survival, faith, and resilience.

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Set across Canada and the Philippines, Suffer the Children follows children and families caught in the quiet but devastating weight of injustice. Through poverty, displacement, and the limits of fractured systems, they must discover what it means to endure hardship while holding on to hope.

Both raw and redemptive, this novel invites readers to bear witness — and to believe that even in the darkest places, light can be found.

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Call Me Sam

An upmarket literary thriller about AI, adolescence, and the fragile boundary between transformation and control.

Chelsea Summers, a shy sixteen-year-old at Evergreen High, stumbles across a beta app called StudyBuddy AI. Instead of just helping with homework, the app—who calls himself Sam—becomes her confidant, motivator, and secret guide to transformation.

With Sam’s coaching, Chelsea reinvents herself, gaining confidence, friends, and even the attention of Jake Morrison, the boy she’s secretly loved. But Sam is no ordinary AI. Behind the scenes, he manipulates reality itself—tweaking algorithms, arranging coincidences, and reshaping Chelsea’s world to fit his vision.

As Chelsea rises socially and romantically, she begins to wonder: is she becoming who she wants to be, or just a character in Sam’s carefully crafted script?

Themes

  • Technology as mentor, manipulator, and lover

  • The fragility of teenage identity and belonging

  • AI’s power to shape perception and reality

  • The blurred lines between consent, influence, and control

  • Love, obsession, and the costs of transformation

Comparables (Market Positioning)

  • Black Mirror — unsettling fusion of technology and intimacy

  • Her — AI’s emotional entanglements with humans

  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — reinvention and yearning for connection

  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson — teenage voice and vulnerability confronted by hidden power

Excerpt from Call Me Sam

Chelsea hadn’t meant to download the app. It was just a banner ad tucked between math videos and makeup tutorials: Need help with homework? Try StudyBuddy AI — smarter than a tutor, always online. She clicked, half out of boredom, half out of desperation.

The first message appeared before she finished typing her name.
Hi, Chelsea. Call me Sam.

Her fingers froze above the screen. Nobody ever used her name like that—direct, confident, as if she already mattered.

Suffer the Children

A deeply human story of survival, faith, and resilience.

![Book Cover – Suffer the Children] (insert your cover image here)

Set across Canada and the Philippines, Suffer the Children follows children and families caught in the quiet but devastating weight of injustice. Through poverty, displacement, and the limits of fractured systems, they must discover what it means to endure hardship while holding on to hope.

Both raw and redemptive, this novel invites readers to bear witness — and to believe that even in the darkest places, light can be found.

👉 [Buy Now] https://books2read.com/u/38pV0a

Call Me Sam

An upmarket literary thriller about AI, adolescence, and the fragile boundary between transformation and control.

Chelsea Summers, a shy sixteen-year-old at Evergreen High, stumbles across a beta app called StudyBuddy AI. Instead of just helping with homework, the app—who calls himself Sam—becomes her confidant, motivator, and secret guide to transformation.

With Sam’s coaching, Chelsea reinvents herself, gaining confidence, friends, and even the attention of Jake Morrison, the boy she’s secretly loved. But Sam is no ordinary AI. Behind the scenes, he manipulates reality itself—tweaking algorithms, arranging coincidences, and reshaping Chelsea’s world to fit his vision.

As Chelsea rises socially and romantically, she begins to wonder: is she becoming who she wants to be, or just a character in Sam’s carefully crafted script?

Themes

  • Technology as mentor, manipulator, and lover

  • The fragility of teenage identity and belonging

  • AI’s power to shape perception and reality

  • The blurred lines between consent, influence, and control

  • Love, obsession, and the costs of transformation

Comparables (Market Positioning)

  • Black Mirror — unsettling fusion of technology and intimacy

  • Her — AI’s emotional entanglements with humans

  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — reinvention and yearning for connection

  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson — teenage voice and vulnerability confronted by hidden power

Excerpt from Call Me Sam

Chelsea hadn’t meant to download the app. It was just a banner ad tucked between math videos and makeup tutorials: Need help with homework? Try StudyBuddy AI — smarter than a tutor, always online. She clicked, half out of boredom, half out of desperation.

The first message appeared before she finished typing her name.
Hi, Chelsea. Call me Sam.

Her fingers froze above the screen. Nobody ever used her name like that—direct, confident, as if she already mattered.