The Hofflebrock

The Geography of Conflict

Book and working atlas

Cover of The Geography of Conflict by J Nicholas, with contour lines divided by a red fault inside a twelve-part circular map.

Two characters can stand in the same room, looking at the same object, and be living in two different stories.

One sees a gun as protection. The other sees the presence of a gun as the moment everything has already gone wrong.

The Geography of Conflict is a book and working atlas for building characters whose private stories create material pressure. It follows those stories into action, collision, consequence, and the point where the framework has to disappear so the fiction can stand on its own.

Dense ivory topographic contours cross a black field beneath red fault lines. Faint buried structures show below the surface.

Publication editions are in preparation.