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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞

@lpmccuebooks.bsky.social
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Author of unsettling thrillers/horror where power hides in plain sight. Reality inspires the fiction. My opinions are my own. | NYC, NY. My links: lnk.bio/LPMcCue

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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 8h
You open an app you've never used. It already seems to have an opinion about you. You never gave it one. Something else did, on your way in. FRICTION is a thriller about the score you carry between apps. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Thriller #NearFuture ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You typed a question last night, read the answer, then deleted the search. Just in case. In case of what? You can't say. You only know it's written down somewhere, and you're not holding the pen. FRICTION is about who is. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Surveillance ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Customers like you" is a phrase worth sitting with. You've never met them. Something has decided you're interchangeable, and it prices you accordingly. That's the world FRICTION is set in. #BookSky #NearFuture #IndieAuthor ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The app offers you a discount if you let it watch how you drive. A month later your premium is higher than the pre-discount premium. Your license says safe driver. Welcome to hell. FRICTION out 9 October. No much of a wait left. lpmccue.com/friction #BookSky #Dystopian #BookRecommendations ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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FRICTION: A Light Horror Surveillance Thriller by L. P. McCue
A dockworker is denied entry for a “behavioral anomaly.” Nobody can explain what he did. The system has already decided. Out October 9, 2026.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Creatures hide in the dark. I'm scared of what hides in the light. #Horror #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The forms got shorter every year. They weren't asking less. They'd just stopped needing to ask. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Dystopian #IndieAuthor ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You try to cancel. A discount appears. There was always a discount. It just needed to know how much you'd put up with first. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #TechnoThriller #AmReading ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Horror rule: if the whole town is friendly and the festival is "tomorrow," you leave tonight.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You and a stranger open the same page at the same moment and see two different prices. Neither of you is told which one is the best price. Get ready for hell by reading FRICTION. Learn more at lpmccue.com/friction #BookSky #NearFuture #TechnoThriller ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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FRICTION: A Light Horror Surveillance Thriller by L. P. McCue
A dockworker is denied entry for a “behavioral anomaly.” Nobody can explain what he did. The system has already decided. Out October 9, 2026.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The doorbells on your street have seen more of you this month than your best friend has. They keep better records, too. That's the world FRICTION is set in. #BookSky #NearFuture #BookRecommendations ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You spend part of every week proving to a machine that you're human. It has never once had to explain itself to you. Chapter one of FRICTION is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Thriller #SciFi ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not watching much right now. Mostly just waiting for Werwulf, the Robert Eggers werewolf film set in 14th-century England. Out Christmas Day. 🐺 #Horror #HorrorMovies
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop typing for five minutes and your status flips to 'Away'. Thinking has never once counted as activity. FRICTION, a thriller by L. P. McCue. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Dystopian #TechnoThriller ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is a device in your kitchen that only listens when you say its name. You have to take its word for that. FRICTION is set one step past that world. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #SciFi #Surveillance ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We value your privacy." They do. They've had it valued. There's a number. That's the world FRICTION is set in. #BookSky #Surveillance #TechnoThriller ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You got the good rate, the fast approval, the short queue. You never asked why. The people who ask why are the ones who didn't. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Thriller #NearFuture ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Optimised' is such a friendly word. Nobody ever finishes the sentence. Optimised for whom? FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #TechnoThriller #BookRecommendations ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your phone noticed you drove past the gym again. It won't bring it up. It's keeping that for someone who'll pay to know. FRICTION, a thriller by L. P. McCue. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #NearFuture #AmReading ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You say something out loud, once, to a friend. Three days later it is in your feed. Everyone calls that a coincidence. Nobody says it like they mean it. That is the world FRICTION is set in. #BookSky #Surveillance #BookRecommendations ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nobody in the store ever remembers your name. But the loyalty card remembers everything you ever bought. That's the world FRICTION is set in. #BookSky #Surveillance #NearFuture ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The system doesn't hold a grudge. It holds a record, and a record lasts longer. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #SciFi #BookRecommendations ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nobody thinks you're a risk. A model thinks you're 0.4% more likely to become one, and it turns out that's enough. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Dystopian #Thriller ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You update the app because it says you must. You never asked what it wants from you in return. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #TechnoThriller #Surveillance ⚡️📚 🪐📚
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They built a model to find the customers worth exploiting. They also built one to find the customers in trouble. Only one of them shipped. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business…
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"This call may be recorded for training purposes." The most honest sentence you'll hear all week. Nobody says whose training. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Surveillance #IndieAuthor
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nobody asks a parcel how it felt about the sorting facility. What makes you think they will ask you when it's time to sort you? FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue about being the parcel. Out 9 October. Kindle pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY #BookSky #Thriller #Surveillance
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The phrase "for your security" has never once been followed by good news. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Dystopian #AmReading
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When was the last time you did something no model saw coming? If it takes a while to answer, this one's for you. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #NearFuture #Thriller
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You were never told no. The appointment just wasn't available. The form timed out. The card didn't go through. Nobody refuses you anymore. Things just get harder. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Chapter one is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Surveillance #Thriller
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just got out of the new Resident Evil Movie... boy, do I have some thoughts. Overall, 7.5/10 from me. Review here: letterboxd.com/lpmccue/film... #Horror #ResidentEvil #FilmSky #Movies
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A ★★★★ review of Resident Evil (2026)
Resident Evil and Diablo were the defining games of my childhood. What I loved most about the first two Resident Evil games was their tense, claustrophobic survival horror: clenching your butthole as ...
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FRICTION begins with a dockworker denied access and an investigation into the predictive security system behind that decision. I wanted to explore a question: what does freedom mean when someone else decides which doors open for you?
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If I put this in a thriller my editor would cut it for being too dumb: the surveillance camera company left the encryption key unencrypted, sitting right next to the data. newscord.org/article/steg...
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Stegan0gram Hackers Rip Down Flock Camera, Recover Encryption Key and Unlock Person Detection Data: how 15 outlets framed it | NewsCord
NeoTeo frames it as a single-device physical compromise, while GIGAZINE focuses on decrypting data after key extraction.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In product design, 'friction' is the word for anything that makes you stop and think. Entire careers are spent removing it. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. #BookSky #TechnoThriller #IndieAuthor
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A horror trailer that shows the monster has already ruined the movie. #Horror #HorrorSky #FilmSky
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chapter one of FRICTION is free to read. No score, no waitlist, no model deciding whether you qualify. You type in an email and it opens. A rare experience, these days. lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #TechnoThriller #AmReading
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” Honestly? Not in a fourth interview answering this shit again. #Jobs #JobSearch
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Name a book that supposedly changes your life that you could not get through. #BookSky #Reading
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A dockworker loses access to his job. A Coast Guard officer investigates the predictive security system behind the decision. FRICTION, my surveillance thriller/horror novel, releases October 9. Join my reader list to read Chapter 1 free: lpmccue.com #BookSky #Thriller #Horror #Dystopian
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L. P. McCue — Literary Thrillers for the Age of Algorithmic Control
FRICTION — the debut novel. Releases October 9, 2026; pre-order on Kindle now. Stories about surveillance, institutional power, and what happens when systems start deciding who you are — and what you'...
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good news: you're not being targeted. You're just being sorted, and the pile you landed in has fewer doors. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. #BookSky #Dystopian #SciFi
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Insurance covers your whole body except the parts you chew with and see with. Those are DLC.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hollywood has spent more years missing the 80s than anyone spent living in them. Move on already.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Would you rather be judged by a person who might be wrong, or by a model that can't be argued with? FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. #BookSky #TechnoThriller #NearFuture
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every privacy policy has a section on how decisions get made about you. It's always the shortest one. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Kindle pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The system did not protect innocent people. It protected useful ones. That's the world of FRICTION. 09 OCT. lpmccue.com
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Somewhere there is a version of you made entirely of data. It gets better service than you do. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your premium went up this year. Nothing happened to you. Something happened in a model you'll never see. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You call the bank. The person on the phone is kind, apologetic, and completely unable to help. They can see the decision. They can't see the reason. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Out 9 October. amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your application was declined in 40 milliseconds. There is nobody to appeal to, because nobody decided it. FRICTION — a thriller by L. P. McCue. Kindle pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0HDMZPSVY
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week's problem: it's hard to make a serial killer book actually seem not routine. The reader already knows the shape. Detective, italicized killer chapters, bodies on a schedule, reveal in act three. Still looking for the version that isn't that.
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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The scariest monster is the one holding your data. FRICTION — coming soon. lpmccue.com #horror #thriller #books
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