{"product_id":"machoas","title":"machinist \/ metronome, by Osric August Sander","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 20 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMachinery can experience codependence. The only love this machine has experienced is at the hands of its inventor, and the only reason He loves it is because its prototype doesn’t work. He isn’t even a real inventor; the machine is His only real achievement. He’s just the machinist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMachinery can grow organically in the human body. There is a metronome stuck in this child’s head. It ticks in their amygdala, bruising, maiming. The arm never stops. The ticking is constant. The child wants a doctor to excise the metronome, but convincing adults the fantastic is real is something only other adults seem to be capable of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eOsric August Sander is an aspiring mortician who lives and works in New Jersey. They have a degree in art history and a well-documented proclivity for the automotive disaster as metaphor. They write concerning fiction for readers who enjoy laughing in the face of evil. Sander’s zines can be found in the New York Metropolitan area if you know where to look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Osric August Sander","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51549629219131,"sku":"MACHOAS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51549629251899,"sku":"MACHOASe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/machinist2_cover.png?v=1786314431","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/machoas","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}