BOOK 1
No Lies at Storytime
At fourteen minutes past ten on a Tuesday in August, every speaker on Grafton Hill apologized. Then every window on the street fell out, and the glass stood up as wolves.
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A system apocalypse LitRPG
NAP TIME
IS OVER
The System that ended the world is four years old, and he only listens to one person: a seventy-one-year-old kindergarten teacher with a folding chair.
BEAN · AGE 4
i didnt mean to.
PINKY PROMISEBean lends her stats. Ten of everything, then a hundred.
DUE BY BEDTIMEKeep it by eight o'clock and the loan goes home.
BREAK ITShe owes him double, and Bean learns how to lie.
EVERY LIEmakes him a year older. Every year makes his monsters smarter.
- Only the MC has Levels. Everyone else earns Jobs and ranks.
- Short, frequent stat boxes. Full sheets every few chapters.
- Deadpan comedy, real stakes. No harem. No VR.
- Five books. The whole series is written.
The series
BOOK 2
Lights Out
Every night at eight, a man with a radio tells her who is dying where she can't reach. And every child on the hill wants to go trick-or-treating.
Coming 2027
BOOK 3
The Dark Part
Under Worcester, every storm drain runs to one place. Her grandson is down there, writing on fogged windows: come down and get me.
Coming 2027
BOOK 4
Grounded
The god who ended the world is ten. He has rules now. One of them is about her.
Coming 2027
BOOK 5
Last Story
At twelve, the boy can put it all away. Everything he made. Including himself.
Coming 2027
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About P.B. Hushby
P.B. Hushby writes funny, frightening books about grown-ups who refuse to give up on children. Nap Time Is Over is the first series.
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