Corporate Satire

If Guy Ritchie directed a James Bond caper starring a queer 007, it might look something like this hilarious and action-packed spy thriller by Paul Rudnick, acclaimed screenwriter and author of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style, that blends espionage and social commentary, with an elite...

She thought it was the flu. She was wrong. Reese Calloway is 24, stubborn, and not built for hospital beds. She drives herself to the ER on a Tuesday night with a fever she has been ignoring for three days. By Wednesday morning, she is in the ICU with a diagnosis she did not see coming and an insurance company that has already begun processing her case. Meridian Health Solutions has a system. The system has a timeline. The timeline does not care about Reese's body. In the room next door, a retired Meridian executive named Roland Voss is dying. He knows exactly how the system works. He knows...

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to...

"The Thursday Murder Club meets Black Mirror in this witty, fast-paced speculative workplace thriller about the high-stakes world of corporate time travel, ancient cover-ups, and the customer support agents who have to sound calm for a living." Epoch Escapes exists to provide safe, structured, and responsible access to humanity's shared past. But when a modern tourist stands up in a Titanic lifeboat on the worst night of someone else’s life, it’s just another Tuesday for customer support. Mara Ansari is a Tier Two Support agent at Epoch Escapes, a corporate time-travel conglomerate. For...

LORD OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE OF THE UNIVERSE Your Current Involuntary Election Campaign — PARODY BREAKING CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT. Congratulations. You have been selected to participate in the upcoming election for Lord of the Eastern Hemisphere of the Universe. Before anyone starts asking difficult questions — yes, we are aware that nobody is entirely certain which half of the universe is technically eastern. Astronomers are divided. Physicists have become strangely unavailable. Several galaxies have retained legal counsel. After considerable deliberation the Department of Speculative ...

She was a Fortune 500 CEO. Now she’s a 10-pound cat in a world that doesn’t even have a stock market. Fortunately, she knows how to build an empire from scratch. Ginger was at the top of the food chain. Literally. As the ruthless CEO of a global conglomerate, she demanded efficiency, synergy, and quarterly growth. But when a mysterious portal swallows her mid-meeting, she wakes up in a chaotic fantasy realm with a severe deficit of logic—and a surplus of things trying to eat her. Trapped in the body of a house cat, Ginger discovers that The Realm is a disorganised mess. The local ...

Grind the Void (Jax Dart, Space Bastard – Book 2) A Queer Sci-Fi Comedy About Space Drugs, Bad Decisions, and Pirates Gone Wrong Jax Dart swore she’d given up making terrible decisions. Then came the Stardust. Now, the galaxy’s most dysfunctional crew is back aboard the Lucky Bastard—broke, bruised, and one bad contract away from total annihilation. When a mysterious new drug called Stardust hits the black market, turning spacers into gods and corpses in equal measure, Jax and her crew of outlaws, aliens, and ex-cons are the unlucky bastards hired to move it. But nothing in the void...

Immortality was supposed to save humanity—until it started eating it. When the world’s first trillionaire promises humanity eternal life, the press calls it “the cure for death.” But when Egon Müller’s miracle vaccine turns test subjects into violent, mindless killers, the cover-up begins. Dubbed Zombie Madness by terrified scientists, the mutation spreads beyond containment—threatening to transform immortality into mankind’s final plague. Blending corporate satire with apocalyptic horror, Richard Sexsmith's "Zombie Madness" is a razor-sharp tale of greed, denial, and the ...

On a hot August night, a man kills a cockroach with a certain 64-page paperback, promising himself he'll clean up the remains "first thing tomorrow." By morning, something is already growing inside his left cheek, its silver antennae protruding like stray hairs from his thick beard. He has spent a decade perfecting a small, careful life: the same routine, the same job, the same unspoken rules, the same stain under the bed he keeps meaning to fix. The thing in his cheek cares about none of it. Symbiosis is hard enough when you only have to live with yourself, let alone when the other part ...

THIS ISN'T YOUR TYPICAL AGILE TRANSFORMATION BOOK It's a fast-moving story packed with drama, humor, and practical insights "A sharp, funny satire that sneaks legit Agile lessons into the hilarious story." —Review on Goodreads A once-mighty tech company teeters on the edge of oblivion. It calls in an outside team to pull it back from the brink. Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum by Scott M. Graffius delivers a bold takedown of corporate Agile cosplay and other forms of “fake Agile”—and a practical playbook for real Agile transformation. This book is for Scrum Masters, ...

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means. 

Jesus Inc. – A Divine Comedy/Tragedy of Faith, Power, and the Business of Belief Behind the dazzling lights, powerful sermons, and awe-inspiring worship of Old Rugged Cross Church lies something far more complex—a system. One that lifts people up, but also lets them down. That inspires, but sometimes exploits. That seeks to serve, but struggles with its own soul. Jack thought he was answering the call to ministry. Instead, he stepped into the inner workings of a multimillion-dollar megachurch—where faith meets franchise, leadership is performance art, and success is measured in ...

The tour of a lifetime—if you survive it When Robert Morgand, a impoverished French aristocrat, accepts a position as interpreter with Thompson & Co. travel agency, he expects a routine cruise to the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. What he gets is a floating disaster: a decrepit ship, an incompetent operator, and sixty passengers whose dreams of exotic travel are about to become a nightmare of mechanical failures, medical quarantines, and desert survival. Published posthumously in 1907 as part of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires and extensively shaped by his son Michel Verne...

He used to liquidate companies. Now, he’s liquidating heroes. Arthur Penhaligon was the ultimate corporate shark—a middle manager with a heart of stone and a spreadsheet for a soul. But after a lifetime of downsizing others, he finds himself on the receiving end of a "terminal" performance review. Instead of the afterlife, Arthur is headhunted by Dungeon Inc., a multidimensional conglomerate that treats fantasy realms like underperforming branch offices. His new assignment? IronCrag Dungeon. It’s a logistical nightmare. The goblins are quiet-quitting, the skeletons are over-budget, ...

Ketamine: A Collection of Dystopian Fiction Short Stories Step into the shadowed corridors of power, deception, and human frailty in Ketamine, where dystopian landscapes collide with raw satire and the haunting absudity that is modern American politics. From the fall of clown-governed republics to corporate empires fueled by greed, this collection explores the grotesque tragedy of humanity’s struggles against its own creations. James Bachman delivers an unflinching vision of society’s descent into chaos, where rebellion simmers, power corrupts, and survival demands a price. Perfect for ...

Every ride ends. Not every rider gets a say. Jax Miller thought two impossible seasons and a boardroom coup were enough to earn a quiet life. The Network had other plans. When Bruno's scavenged Companion Locator picks up a signal two thousand miles away — an uplifted mascot named Ferris, mid-season, still fighting for his life — Jax, Bruno, Thalia, Marcus, Wren, and Denise pile into a borrowed mascot transport van and drive straight into someone else's finale, uninvited and completely unauthorized. What they find is worse than expected: a season that refuses to end, an Executive ...

What if God was just a man with enough money? Earth, 2785. The planet is a curated paradise ruled by five corporate houses, while billions scrape out short, brutal lives on Mars. Abraham Goldstein — 250 years old, the richest man alive, and dying — has exhausted everything medicine can sell him. Then his secret quantum project breaches the Divine Dimension, and what he finds there changes everything: God is dead. And he left blueprints. Armed with mind-control technology reverse-engineered from a dead deity, Abraham builds Eden: an artificial world of abducted Martian refugees who ...

"THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED. IT WILL BE CONFLICT-RESOLVED." Every office has its quirks. A flickering fluorescent bulb, a missing stapler, a door that stays locked from the inside. But at the Zenith Corporation, the architecture itself feels like a corporate gaslight. Employees arrive, punch in, and disappear into a maze of institutional beige and endless corridors. Efficiency is paramount. Compliance is mandatory. Emotional outbursts are strictly scheduled for the 15-minute afternoon break. Then a folded paper crane appears on the threshold of a hidden, unmapped crawlspace behind...

Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that they're not about to be outsourced.

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...