Spanning a decade of reign, ritual, and ruin, the narrative unfolds in the stark silence of locked rooms and the invisible scripts dictated by the colors of uniforms—blue, green, pale yellow. It is a story of memory that clings like a ghost, and the terrifying courage required to forget just to live another hour, another day.
Through the mirrored labyrinth of dual languages and dual selves, author Waetford Tommy masterfully blurs the line between instruction and nightmare, rule and grotesque enforcement. Readers will find themselves caught in a chilling dance of recognition, realizing that the most ornate cages are often the ones we build ourselves, and the truest monsters are rarely those we are taught to fear.
Step into this unsettling, beautifully crafted arena of split consciousness. But be warned: once you enter, finding your way back out may be the greatest challenge of all.
Waetford Tommy is a visionary writer and artist who crafts narratives that dwell in the spaces between languages, identities, and states of being. With a background that bridges literary fiction and conceptual art, Tommy explores themes of power, memory, and survival within systems of control—both visible and unseen.
Bilingual is Tommy’s debut novel, a project born from a deep engagement with linguistic duality and the haunting legacy of bureaucratic and folkloric traditions. As both author and designer of this work, Tommy brings a fully integrated artistic vision to the page, where text and form merge to create an immersive, disquieting reading experience.
When not writing or designing, Tommy can be found exploring forgotten archives, studying obscure linguistic patterns, or wandering the blurred lines between reality and narrative. Tommy currently lives between worlds, both real and imagined.