In progress
Project Smoke
A book of human observations — not a memoir, not self-help.
A finished manuscript — twenty-eight chapters of short, observational essays about the gap between how people look from the outside and what's actually going on underneath. No names, no memoir framing, not Layor76's own story. The book-length version of the idea behind "You've Only Met the Smoke."
The writing is done — twenty-eight chapters, complete but not yet prepared for release. It isn’t about Layor76’s own life; it’s a patient, unhurried look at the small ways people build a surface self and the effort it takes to see past someone else’s. Status here is “in-progress” because it hasn’t been readied for publishing, not because there’s more left to write.
No dedicated sales page yet — this uses the generic book page at src/pages/writing/[slug].astro.
Build a real page once there’s more to show.