After the Streams
Author: Jonah Ravenshead
Release Date: October 22, 2025
Genre: Political Fiction, Dystopian
Length: Novella
Pages: 76
Blurb
When Teal Weaver started streaming, he broke the silence. He named the system. Called out the complicit. Showed what "legal" really means when humans become merchandise.
The streams went viral.
After the Streams follows nine people whose lives intersected with Teal's truth. Each story examines complicity from a different angle: the almost-victim, the sibling, the worker, the artist, the professional, the buyer, the expert, the family, the survivor.
This is a book about systems that grind up humans while calling it opportunity. About the people who enable those systems, benefit from them, and survive them. About what happens when silence breaks.
This is dystopian allegory that names what late capitalism does to people.
Some changed. One got worse. None of them were ready.
Content Notes
Content Warnings
Legal slavery, systemic exploitation, trauma, complicity, and survival. The narrative maintains restraint—no graphic depictions—but is unflinching in its honesty about what these systems do to people. Readers should be prepared for difficult subject matter including dehumanization, psychological harm, and the lasting impact of trauma.
Structure
Nine interconnected short stories plus an epilogue, each from a different perspective. Can be read standalone, but works as Book 2 in The Returned series.
About the Author
Jonah Ravenshead is a Berlin-based author and publisher who writes and publishes stories that refuse to be polite. Their political fiction examines how capitalism, exploitation, and power crush people—work that doesn't look away from complicity or commodification.
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