Mirror Man
NovelIn progress
Dark speculative fiction · Psychological horror · Literary suspense
Dominique Adam
Humane horror for an inhuman world.
Original photograph taken from the author’s office window · The visual seed for a growing library of worlds
01 · The work
The impossible arrives quietly.
A kitchen. A hospital room. A family car. One wrong detail—and suddenly the floor is gone.
Dominique Adam writes at the uneasy intersection of speculative fiction, psychological horror and literary suspense. Her stories begin in familiar territory and introduce the impossible so naturally that readers accept it before realizing there is no safe way back.
Her real subject is humanity under pressure. Apocalypses remain personal. Superpowers carry terminal consequences. Monsters are often less frightening than institutions, crowds, or ordinary people who have learned to look away.
Cinematic, compassionate and laced with gallows humour, these are stories about memory, identity, grief, survival—and what remains of us when everything we use to define ourselves begins to fail.
02 · Featured novel
PLACEBO
When a weapon built to erase the unwanted escapes containment, survival is only the beginning.
A catastrophic virus fractures society. Elysium promises a different kind of salvation: the ability to preserve and replicate the human mind. But memory is identity, and any system that can save a person can also decide which parts of that person deserve to survive.
PLACEBO is a completed novel currently seeking literary representation.
03 · Selected projects
Other worlds waiting.
Each project is identified by both form and status, allowing agents and readers to distinguish completed manuscripts from works still taking shape.
Development labels are provisional and can be updated as projects advance.
04 · Short fiction
Eight stories. Eight open doors.
The following works are currently under consideration for the CBC Short Story Prize. Their titles are presented here without excerpts while judging is in progress.
Fury
The Place Outside the World
They Were Not Us
The Click
The Assumption
Cash4Life
A Whisper of Stone
A Dirge of Sparrows
05 · Non-fiction
Useful books with a human voice.
Cookbook
Just Trust Me
A practical cookbook project written with personality, judgment, and the confidence to tell readers when exact measurements matter—and when they do not.
Non-fiction
What to Expect When You’re Digesting
A non-fiction project in development. Further description will be added when its public-facing scope is confirmed.
06 · Poetry
Language under a different pressure.
A dedicated home for selected poems and future collections. Titles and excerpts will be added only after Dominique chooses the work she wants represented publicly.
07 · Beyond the page
Language built. Problems solved.
Constructed language
Conlang
A living language project with its own evolving sound, grammar, and vocabulary. Public samples and project notes will be added when the presentation is ready.
Independent invention
Patent pendingInvention 1
Further information will be made available when appropriate. Technical details are intentionally withheld.
08 · About
A Canadian writer of beautiful nightmares.
Dominique Adam is a Canadian author of dark speculative fiction, psychological horror and literary suspense.
A lifelong reader and storyteller, she is drawn to ordinary people facing impossible circumstances—and to the moral questions that emerge when familiar systems fail. Her work explores memory, identity, grief, survival, and the dangerous distance between witnessing suffering and intervening.
She lives in Ontario and writes novels and short fiction.
Author photograph to be selected
Representation · Rights · Professional inquiries
Let’s begin a conversation.
For representation, rights, and professional inquiries:
dominiqueadamwrites@gmail.com