A darkly comic near-future noir where the worst problem isn’t death, it’s the paperwork that comes with it.
Fabian wakes up in a cold shower and tries to focus on the day’s urgent crisis: the two corpses in his apartment.
Brenna E. Lorenz writes speculative fiction with sharp teeth—stories that lean into the absurd, pull on the loose thread of “normal,” and keep pulling until something screams. The Corpse Problem is her darkly comic plunge into family rivalry, identity, and what happens when a bad decision collides with a worse coincidence.
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Fabian is already having a terrible morning—then he realizes he’s not alone in his own life. In a near-future Chicago of strained systems and stranger appetites, one mistake becomes a cascade: mistaken identity, family vendettas, and a workplace that makes “quality control” sound like a threat.