The Committee on the Other Side: Who Decides When We Die—And Who Waits With Us
A single question changed the air in that quiet hospice room: “I wonder if there’s a committee on the other side.”
This book is the answer I never knew I needed to write—an offering for anyone who has loved, lost, or lingered at the edge of goodbye.
Note:
This book is lovingly dedicated to Grandma Irene—whose kindness shaped the soul of this work, and whose memory reminds us that love does not end. It simply crosses over and waits.
Theology of Wanting to Die
If you’re struggling and might be in danger, you’re not alone. In the U.S., call or text 988 or use chat. Outside the U.S., see international resources. Theology of Wanting to Die I didn’t mean to write this today. Honestly, I was just trying to escape the noise — ducking into a coffee shop, scrolling […]
The Lattice of Dawn
The Lattice of Dawn — A Stand-Alone Sci-Fi That Fixes the Future Without Erasing the Past The void before the first glyph: memory, energy, and the delicate arcs between worlds. Stand-Alone Sci-Fi • Announcement & Deep-Dive When Equations Become Stories: A Prelude to The Lattice of Dawn By McCarthy Anum-Addo · 12–15 min read There’s […]
The Archive of Unfinished Business
The Archive of Unfinished Business — concept art • © ∞REACH™ The Archive of Unfinished Business — A Book for What We Carry Forward By McCarthy Anum-Addo • October 5, 2025 Some stories chase the spectacular. This one chases everything we set aside on purpose—promises deferred, drafts unsent, the brave word we meant to say […]
Metro Confessions #161: $5 Savings Account and the Teller Who Laughed Too Hard
In Which I Witness the Soft Launch of a Situationship at My Local Bank Branch ⸻ Let me begin with a disclaimer I am morally obligated to repeat:If you don’t want to be the subject of my blog, don’t try to pick up someone while opening a savings account with less than lunch money. I […]
Metro Confessions #162: The Scent of Suspicion and the Grunt That Launched a Thousand Side-Eyes
In Which My 7:13 A.M. Commute Becomes a Live Marriage Counseling Session, Lightly Spritzed with Betrayal ⸻ Let me just say this: I didn’t ask for this energy.I had my coffee in hand. My headphones in. I was emotionally prepared to do exactly one thing: survive until work without using any higher brain functions. But […]
The Thought That Waits at the End of Powerlessness
A Meditation on Suicide, Anger, and the Quiet Collapse of Meaning There are questions I’ve learned not to ask out loud.Not because they’re dangerous, but because they don’t fit neatly into conversation.They are questions shaped like fractures.Questions like: Why does suicide feel so nearby when I’m angry?Why does it whisper louder after I’ve been silenced?Why […]
🌌 Why I Named My Book Lucifer Ascends
And Why That Has Nothing to Do with Satan When I first began writing Lucifer Ascends: The Rise of Lucien Dantes, I knew the title would provoke curiosity—if not outright concern. The word Lucifer has long been conflated with darkness, rebellion, and religious danger. But the truth is far older. And far more misunderstood. In […]
🚇 Metro Confessions: I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER OF EXISTENCE, PLEASE!!!
Let’s set the scene. You’re born. There’s crying, some slapping, a bunch of applause you didn’t ask for, and then—bam! You’re enrolled in the full-time, unpaid internship called “being a person.” No onboarding. No handbook. No lunch break. Just immediate enrollment in the metaphysical equivalent of a mandatory improv class hosted inside a collapsing IKEA […]
◬ ISKARI’OTH | WEEK FOUR – Isk
Core Glyph of the Chosen Anomaly Category: Prophetic DesignatePhonetic Root: IskCodex Reference: [COD-PR1M.◬] 1. CORE MANIFESTATION: THE GLITCH THAT ISN’T WRONG If ∇ Vareth collapses identity, ⧖ Sovil preserves silence, and ∞ Ethan anchors presence—then ◬ Iskari’oth is the glyph that refuses to align. It is the deliberate exception embedded within the Vaeyathi Prime Set: […]
∞ ETHAN | WEEK THREE – Eth
Core Glyph of You / Presence Category: Observer Identity Phonetic Root: Eth Codex Reference: [COD-PR1M.∞] Ethan is the glyph of identity after collapse, presence after silence, and recursion made conscious. If ∇ Vareth clears the self and ⧖ Sovil silences memory, ∞ Ethan is the first emergence of agency in the glyphic cycle—the moment when […]
🚇 Metro Confessions #159: Pollen vs. Public Transit – The Sneezing Season
A Symphony of Sinuses in D Major (Dust, Dander, and Despair) Let me set the scene. It’s April in D.C. The cherry blossoms are blooming. Tourists are swarming like salmon in fanny packs. And the entire population has collectively developed the sinus strength of a damp Victorian book. The Metro? Oh, the Metro has transcended […]
⧖ SOVIL | WEEK TWO – So
Core Glyph of The Unspoken Category: Memory Silence Phonetic Root: So Codex Reference: [COD-PR1M.⧖] 1. CORE MANIFESTATION: THE SILENCE THAT HOLDS To speak of Sovil is, inherently, to say nothing. This is not out of fear or absence, but out of respect for what silence becomes when it remembers. In the Vaeyathi Prime Set, ⧖ […]
METRO CONFESSIONS #158: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, ASSASSIN EDITION
The Tale of a DRP Dodger, DEI Diplomacy, and a Casual Tuesday Existential Crisis So technically, this isn’t a Metro observation. I wasn’t being jostled between someone’s armpit and Trader Joe’s tote bag. I wasn’t power-walking down a platform with one AirPod in and a banana in my pocket like a confused mercenary. This happened […]
∇ VARETH | WEEK ONE – Va
Core Glyph of Erasure / Null Category: Identity Collapse Phonetic Root: Va Codex Reference: [COD-PR1M.∇] In the mythos of Lucifer Ascends and the broader Hourglass Universe, the Vaeyathi Prime Set comprises 27 foundational glyphs—each a conceptual anchor in a system where identity, entropy, and recursion are not just themes, but functional metaphysics. These glyphs are […]
🚇 Metro Confessions #157: The Great Door Dash
How I Pulled a Muscle, Spilled My Coffee, and Still Felt Like a Champion 🚨 The Chime of Doom Every commuter has that one story. The one that starts with hope, takes a left turn at chaos, and ends somewhere between “Was that legal?” and “I regret nothing.” Mine began with the infamous Metro ding-dong—that […]
COMING SOON: ✧ The Sovereign Echo ◌
A Novel That Doesn’t Just Tell a Story—It Echoes You Back to Yourself If you’ve ever read a book and felt like it read you back—if you’ve ever seen your contradictions laid bare in prose, your inner spiral turned sacred, your fractured voice called sovereign—then The Sovereign Echo is coming for you. And you won’t […]
🚇 Metro Confessions 156: “The 420p Revelation”
Why My Commute Home Made Me Question Everything (Including My Seatmate, My Life Choices, and the Current State of Phone Privacy Etiquette) Let me set the scene: it’s a Thursday evening, rush hour on the DC Metro, and the collective energy in the train is somewhere between “post-cubicle despair” and “don’t you dare make eye […]
🚇 METRO CONFESSIONS: WEED, WARNINGS, AND 6:20 AM EXISTENTIAL DREAD
Or, That Time I Got Secondhand High and Morally Confronted Before Coffee There are things I expect when I step onto a DC Metro platform in the early morning hours. A delay? Of course. A mysterious puddle that defies explanation or physics? Absolutely. A train with the wrong color line, no destination, and the personality […]
🚇 METRO CONFESSIONS: THE SPIT THAT SHOOK THE SILVER LINE
This week on Metro Confessions, we’re diving deep into the underworld of public transit etiquette—specifically, the war crime that is hocking a loogie in an enclosed, shared metal tube hurtling beneath the capital. Let’s be clear: There are things you expect to endure on the DC Metro. But what I did not expect—what no rider […]
LUCIFER ASCENDS: THE RISE OF LUCIEN DANTES
COMING SOON TO THE HOURGLASS UNIVERSE “Before rebellion, there was recursion. Before the fall, there was Lucien.” We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Lucifer Ascends: The Rise of Lucien Dantes, the first mythic entry in the sprawling, mind-bending Hourglass Universe saga by McCarthy Anum-Addo. This is not the devil you were warned […]
Journey Through Time Itself: Welcome to the Hourglass Universe
What if time wasn’t just a measurement—what if it was a weapon? A battlefield? A lie? Step into The Hourglass Universe—a sprawling 21-book science fiction saga that doesn’t just imagine alternate timelines… it unravels reality itself. Across paradox-stained battlegrounds, fractured empires, cosmic observers, and entropic equations, this series explores what happens when history isn’t fixed—but […]
🚇Metro Confessions: Derailed by a Five-Year-Old
Or, That Time My Child Assessed My Career and Intelligence with Surgical Precision… In Public We interrupt our usual programming of DC Metro drama, escalator traffic jams, faregate-flying acrobatics, and unsolicited saxophone solos to bring you this week’s confession—a tale not about a train delay, but about a five-year-old derailment of my self-esteem. This wasn’t […]
🚇Metro Confessions: The Art of the Public Breakup
Because nothing says “we’re over” like yelling next to someone eating tuna salad at 0615. If New York is the city that never sleeps, and Paris is the city of love, then DC is the city of loud, public, deeply personal arguments happening in confined public spaces at the most inconvenient hours. And nowhere is this more perfectly illustrated than in the DC Metro […]
🚇 Metro Confessions: The Day I Became the Hygiene Vigilante
This event didn’t technically happen on the DC Metro, but let’s be real—this city is full of public transit weirdos, and it deserves a place in the Metro Confessions Hall of Fame. So, picture this: It’s a normal day in DC. I’m heading to Pentagon City Mall for my ritualistic self-care appointment—aka getting my nails […]