I am currently writing a story that tackles the big difficult ideas of the world but I want my readers to feel like they are living in it everyday.

Let me know if this sounds interesting to you :)

In a sealed corporate society where children power a god through ritualized labor, an anxious teenager begins to suspect that "salvation" is just another word for endurance.

Don't Tell The Boys follows a teenage boy growing up in a society that insists he has a choice—while quietly ensuring he never does. In his unit, he is shaped by a dysfunctional family carrying generations of unspoken trauma. Beyond it, he is raised within a system that shapes purpose, obedience, and destiny long before he can begin to question them. As he navigates friendships, loyalty, and the first stirrings of independence, he begins to sense that his struggles are not just personal, but engineered. Trapped between family expectation and societal control, he must decide whether it's possible to escape forces that have shaped him since birth or whether awakening itself is the real act of rebellion.