JJ Adler

On the brink of his big break, an overconfident understudy blows his life up.

While other media outlets bring you news as it happens, only the Onion News Network has the power to bring you the news before it happens. In the year 2137 a catastrophe has reduced the world to a lawless wasteland — food and water are scarce, social institutions have crumbled, and a screaming, tattooed thug has been installed as the president of what remains of the United States.

Living in the lap of luxury through no achievement of his own, an out of touch, middle-aged poseur tries to make good by getting in on the 'viral video' craze.

When an atheist psychiatrist hypnotizes his con artist patient, a message from his long-dead twin emerges. Is it the perfect con, or proof that reality is far stranger than he would like to admit?