Lot 722
Author: Jonah Ravenshead
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Genre: Political Fiction, Thriller
Length: Novel
Pages: 140
Blurb
TTeal Weaver is eighteen. Purple hair he saved eight months to buy. Twelve-year-old brother going blind. Parents drowning in generational debt that compounds faster than they can breathe. The system offers one exit: auction yourself for 365 days. Walk away with enough to erase everything. He sells for 26.7 million euros. Becomes Lot 722. Gets renamed Purple by bored twins for branding purposes. Spends a year as livestream content for hundreds of millions while forgetting his own name. Survives. Can't go home. Finds others who can't go home. Builds something from the wreckage. This is social commentary that won't flinch from showing you what exploitation actually looks like when you strip away the comfortable euphemisms.
This is dystopian allegory that names what late capitalism does to people.
We already sell ourselves—we just use softer words.
Content Notes
Content Warnings
Explicit sexual content (oral sex, anal sex, penetration, masturbation, group sex, public sex, livestreamed sex), power dynamics (owner/property, dominance/submission), dehumanization (renaming, objectification, being referred to as merchandise), degradation, physical restraint, body modification (augmentations for sale), psychological manipulation, dissociation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, panic attacks, trauma responses, economic coercion, generational poverty, debt bondage, medical procedures without full autonomy, loss of identity, references to other victims who didn't survive, profanity, discussions of anti-capitalist theory and leftist organizing.
This book is not made for arousal. It is political content abnd is explicitly anti-capitalist. The system is working as designed. Organize. Resist. Eat the rich.
Structure
Teal's first-person narrative through his year as Lot 722, the aftermath, and twenty years later when he goes public. Book 1 in The Returned series, followed by After the Streams (9 stories about people who heard Teal's truth).
Can be read standalone.
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.
Ravenshead Press: Soft Boys, Hard Truths