Virtual ReadingSkills Method Complete

CATHERINE BRUNS

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Virtual ReadingSkills Method Complete is a tale of fractures, told in two tongues—English and Literature Performance—that mirrors the split consciousness of those living under a gilded, watchful power. The narrative maps a ten-year descent measured in reigns, rituals, and ruins, exploring choices made not in freedom but in the stark silence of locked rooms. The story follows the accelerating collapse of the Qing State: Water eliminates the mountain, seizing his gem business; American Mafia boss Silva, at Chen's request, sends a card shark to drain four Qing casinos of over sixty million dollars; and the lake, receiving news of these disasters along with the destruction of two smuggling boats, spits blood and collapses. A state conference is called where the lake promises a solution within ten days, staking his shares in the Qing Yuan Corporation. Meanwhile, in Hangzhou, Lan Xiang discovers she is pregnant—fifty days along—from her drugged encounter with Chen, and leaves the hospital in shock, her thoughts completely disordered.

Virtual ReadingSkills Method Complete is a tale of fractures, told in two tongues—English and Literature Performance—that mirrors the split consciousness of those living under a gilded, watchful power. The narrative maps a ten-year descent measured in reigns, rituals, and ruins, exploring choices...

About the author

CATHERINE BRUNS is a writer, book designer, and artist whose work inhabits the unsettling gap between word and echo, rule and grotesque enforcement. Drawing inspiration from the stark, haunting traditions of folktale and gothic bureaucracy, Bruns constructs multi-room narratives that challenge readers to embrace disorientation, question authority, and persist through ambiguity. Their creative practice encompasses storytelling, book design, and original artwork for each volume. Bruns acknowledges the concept of "selection" in all its cold, myriad forms as an unwitting muse. When not mentally worlds away, trapped in palaces of their own making, Bruns extends deep gratitude to first readers, linguistic guides, family, friends, and ultimately the reader—who holds the dual-keyed text and ventures into the arena, hoping to find their way back out. Virtual ReadingSkills Method Complete is Copyright © 2025 by CATHERINE BRUNS, a work of fiction in which any resemblance to actual persons, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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