Fractured: As Within. So Without. — the paperback cover by J.R. McGee.

FRACTURED

What if losing your mind was the first sign you were finally seeing reality clearly?

A novel by

J.R. McGee

Dark queer supernatural psychological thriller

Print & ebook release

November 20, 2026

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About Fractured

The story

Cal has spent years medicating the parts of himself that never quite fit reality. When he stops, reality starts answering back.

What begins as an apparent psychological breakdown pulls him into a hidden world of fractured souls, impossible abilities, angels, pharmaceutical conspiracies—and the terrifying possibility that he isn't losing his mind at all.

From the world of Fractured

Jade’s Journal

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The Neglected / The Top Hat Man

The Neglected (Hell Hound)

Feeds on the help you could have given. Every time you turn away, it grows.

The leash has no owner.

The Top Hat Man

A debt collector. He comes for the bloodline.

Mirror merchant?

The Shadow Kings

The Shadow Kings — Four that answer to one.

The Weaver: Feeds on the need to be chosen. It never takes. It offers. Being obeyed is not being loved.

The Ventriloquist: Its deals aren’t false. They’re just never paid off.

The Mourner: Feeds on grief, and everything you swallowed instead of saying.

The Hoarder: Feeds on what you won’t let go of.

Feeders / The Hollowed

Feeders

Think of a Feeder like an idea. Feed it and it grows.

They can’t break the Veil themselves. They wait for a crack.

They ride people who never know they’re carrying one.

They feed on fear, shame, grief, want.

Look for the thread. There is always a thread.

The Hollowed

A shell is not a person. But someone used to live there.

Hollowed.

Occupied: Their color doesn’t leak.

Feral: What’s left turns on itself.

The Fractured / How It Happens

The Fractured — from the journal of J.

Human: Veil intact. Believes every thought is their own.

Fractured: Something tears the Veil. Light leaks out.

Hollowing: Giving themselves away a little every day.

Hollowed: No one home. Looks human. Feels like nothing.

Occupied: Something moved into the empty room.

Hollowed first. Then occupied. Never the other way around.

How It Happens

Wound → Give → Empty → Move in → Feed.

Signs: Your own voice, saying things you didn’t mean. Feelings that aren’t yours. Gaps in memory. The same numbers, over and over. A voice that swears it’s on your side.

They can only take what is freely given.

The clever ones don’t come as monsters.

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Behind the story

About the Author

J. R. McGee is a New York–born writer, creative director, and storyteller whose work explores the fragile boundary between perception and reality.

After nearly two decades in advertising, building worlds and shaping narratives designed to influence how people think, feel, and see themselves, he became increasingly fascinated by a different question: What happens when we begin questioning the stories we’ve been taught to believe?

Drawing on his background in visual storytelling, psychology, spirituality, and the unseen forces that shape human behavior, McGee blends psychological suspense with supernatural mythology, dark humor, and deeply human characters.

Fractured is his debut novel and the beginning of a larger literary universe exploring consciousness, identity, and the power of reclaiming one’s own reality.

He lives in New York, where he continues to write, create, and question everything.