Tortuga Publishing
The Tortuga Society is proud to publish works from our members.
Cut through the rampant slop currently touted as “literature” and read some true quality works below.
In a world where Germany triumphed in the Great War, and the United States are united no longer, Joseph Lecourt returns home to Louisiana. He has spent decades away, fighting other men’s wars, and believes that his family is dead. He is adrift and alone, until a chance meeting in a New Orleans bar launches him on a secret military mission across an abandoned and decaying Southern landscape. Now he must travel up a river, beyond the limits of a collapsing civilization, to uncover his family’s darkest secret.
If you liked ”Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now”, you will love “The New World”, a Southern Gothic retelling of the original story, in an alternate history setting.
Pandemonia is a satirical fantasy quest through deserts, swamps, jungles, and bureaucratic hellscapes. Part epic quest, part political farce, part redemption story. For fans of Discworld, Bored of the Rings, Vox Machina, The Adventure Zone, and also farts, this is your next heroic disasterpiece.
I am naught but Praise unto God.
This isn’t a polished devotional, the newest dissident think piece, or manifesto qua self-help book in disguise. It’s a collection of poems, essays, and field notes written in the cracks of real life—from the same half-lit corner of the internet that hosts the dog and pony show Substack.
The Aping American is what happens when a man tries to worship Christ, love his family, kill rats, scroll less, and pray without ceasing in a collapsing empire that just wants him medicated, pacified, and ashamed of his instincts. Some pieces are prayers. Some are gut checks. Some are spiritual mutterings from a man trying not to snap in the produce aisle.
Inside are reflections on marriage, fatherhood, attention span collapse, screen-induced despair, identity confusion, and the quiet, unsellable rebellion of daily obedience.
If you’ve ever wanted to raise your kids in peace, praise God without apologizing, and maybe burn your phone in a small backyard ceremony—this might be for you.
Read it. Pass it on. Praise God anyway.
Ahead is eternity. Don’t forget today.