one and zero

Listen to the audio chapters as they become available on this stream: the one and the zero

*the one and the zero*

a novel – spoken in time

The moment is frozen in time, haunting me all of these days.
A binary choice. A fork in our timelines.
A loss of everything I understood to be important in life.
An end.

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NEW: Short explainer video of the first 10 chapters of The One and the Zero.

*Let’s Begin*

Monkey in the Middle (listen)

  1. Unsweetened (listen)
  2. Falkner or Salinger? (listen)
  3. Oh my God, What Have I Done? (listen)
  4. Southern Charmer (listen)
  5. Adjusting Expectations (listen)
  6. Tapering Ecstasy (listen)
  7. Becoming Vapor (listen)
  8. Dooms of Love (listen)
  9. Forced Reconfiguration (listen)
  10. My Fouth Angel  (listen)
  11. Go Your Own Way (listen)
  12. Loss of Signal (listen)
  13. Sadness Breaking Through (listen)
  14. The Texas Good ‘ol Boy Network (listen)
  15. All the White Horses Have Been Taken (listen)
  16. The Bridge (listen)
  17. An Ongoing Malfunction (listen)
  18. Little Flutters in My Heart (listen)
  19. Bite Down on This (listen)
  20. Loss of Great Expectations (listen)
  21. PopTarts (listen)
  22. What Do You Want From Life? (listen)
  23. Low Lights (listen)
  24. This is Not What Depression Looks Like (listen)
  25. No Snow on the Mountain (listen)
  26. Dark Thirty (listen)
  27. Traveling Alone (listen)
  28. A Room Full of Stars
  29. Father Son and Father Gone (listen)
  30. Under the Volcano (listen)
  31. Swan Dive Out (listen)
  32. Breached (listen)
  33. General Anesthesia
  34. Folding Her Clothes and Folding My Desire (listen)
  35. Morning Birdsong (listen)
  36. My Understanding (listen)
  37. Ominous Clouds Ahead (listen)
  38. Lost in This Big Sky (listen)
  39. Where Christmas Died (listen)
  40. Threading a Dangerous Needle (listen)
  41. I Know You Are Lying (listen)
  42. Up and Out (listen)
  43. End of the Carnival (listen)
  44. Chasing the Sun (listen)
  45. Serenity Now (listen)
  46. We’re All Mad Now (listen)
  47. Asking for a Friend (listen)
  48. He Is Dead (listen)
  49. The Moody Blues (listen)
  50. The Lunatics Have Taken Over (listen)
  51. Disconnected Lines of Inquiry (listen)
  52. Powerful Life Powerful Lessons (listen)
  53. Help Identifying the Protagonist (listen)
  54. I Don’t Wanna Be Here Anymore (listen)
  55. Love Letter to My Ex-Wife (listen)
  56. Pick Your Poisons (listen)
  57. Weightless (listen)
  58. Game Theory (listen)
  59. The Unbearable Weight of Things (listen)
  60. My Moment In Time (listen)
  61. Family Secrets (listen)
  62. Suicide Is Painless (listen)
  63. Fairwells (listen)
  64. Full Stop (listen)
  65. Climbing Up That Hill (listen)
  66. Attachment Parenting (listen)
  67. Orbiting a Dying Sun (listen)
  68. Everything Is Lost (listen)
  69. A Parade of Young Women(listen)
  70. Fly Away Home (listen)
  71. Catskill Coffee (listen)
  72. The End Again (listen)
  73. Resetting Serenity (listen)

icarus ascending, hyper-fiction by john oakley mcelhenney

Don’t Miss the Entire Series of Icarus Ascending:

The One and the Zero (book one)
The New Ending (book two)
Fear*God (book three)
Exodus (book four)
ESC_KEY (book five)
On the Spec (book six)

 

ALSO IN DEVELOPMENT >> The first screenplay teaser #1: Never Let You Go.

Thanksgiving Day Teaser #3
Teaser #4 – About a Girl
Teaser #5 Cast of Characters
Teaser #6 – Dreamworld
Never Let You Go – Opening Monologue

MUSIC

SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: Never Let You Go Soundtrack 2025
SPOTIFY: Never Let You Go Soundtrack

 

understanding the one and the zero – i am constructing some maps for the complex storylines. Here’s the first one (incomplete) about my son’s zooms and crashes.

one and zero timeline

the poetry series that started this cascade of content: i’m beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry (a poetic mapping of the same story – also in progress – the title from the book came from one of the poems)

a radiohead song we share – rough draft (my vocals). I’m in the process of recording this again with an all human band. Stay tuned.

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