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.
Brock Solitt, a failed academic turned porn-industry copywriter, has built a life that’s easy, chaotic and unfulfilling. But that all changes when a mysterious billionaire acquires the company he works for and orders Brock to help adapt his favorite erotic novel into a revolutionary, celebrity-driven, free-to-stream spectacle.
Suddenly Brock is tasked with the monumental challenge of synthesizing high art and base desire. He is swept into a European film shoot where he bears witness to absurd festivities and catastrophic failures as the seductive gravity of the void pulls everything around him into nothingness. In the end, Brock is forced to confront the true meaning of freedom as well as the limits of his own apathetic worldview.
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.
Lots of WB lore that will help you understand why I’m Like This
Numerous extensive and invigorating philosophical / socio-satiric dialogues
Plenty of fun flirty Covid-era Comedy of Manners shit about navigating Zoomette cultural sensibilities as a prematurely out of touch early nineties nigga
Mountains of overwrought monologuing about all your favorite WB topics
Far more overtly evil Male Interiority shit than you’ll ever catch me posting here on Substack
a bunch of scenes where the Woman Characters get to talk extensively about all the stuff that’s wrong with me so as to keep female readers engaged
a riveting extended dream sequence wherein five different versions of me from five distinct years argue in a convenience store
a comprehensive subtextual analysis of very nearly every number in the musical Oklahoma! for thebenefit of my fellow theater fags;
a fair amount of Alt Right nostalgia for oldheads
Just a smidgen of tasteful smut to keep things lively
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.