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Zen Garden Massacre, the first iteration, is a free-form collection of interconnected stories in the vein of Murakami and Joyce that attempts to resolve the nothingness and everythingness aspects of Zen. Throughout the novella our nameless protagonist reveals glimpses of his past life while undergoing one of the most physically demanding trials ever known: the Kaihogyo, or 1000 days of running undertaken by the Marathon Monks of Kyoto, Japan. Running to exhaustion is the perfect platform to recollect these stories and assemble them into something more meaningful, something approaching Zen everythingness. Only through immense exhaustion can our hero see the purity of his choices.

Part travelogue, absurdist comedy, meditation and mystery. Our protagonist is running, but what for and what from? Can you solve the riddle and win 10% of the publishing royalties?