LOS ESCORPIONES

The Scorpions is a novel about angst and methods people employ to escape it, with a particular focus on suicide, addiction (to drugs, videogames, the internet, love), and conspiratorial thinking. It is also a tale of loneliness and faith. v

The text centers on a conspiracy theory that I invented myself, which encompasses a panoply of other, real conspiracy theories (i.e., urban legends that exist in the actual world), such as the Polybius creepypasta; the sinister background music in Lavender Town in the first edition of Pokémon; MK-Ultra; control of governments and big business through hypnosis, subliminal music and messages; experimentation, torture, or cannibalism of the civilian population by economic elites; freemasonry; and an endless list of other theories that see connections everywhere you look. The protagonists, Sara (25 years old at the beginning of the novel) and Thomas (33) both independently get caught up in that conspiracy theory. As both have experienced traumatic events and are uneasy about their lives, they end up believing that there's some truth to the conspiracy; they join forces to find out just how correct it is.