Lucky reads the world like a map of hidden messages.
A dead-end sign becomes a warning. A missed call, a prophecy. The stars speak to him. The sidewalk whispers in patterns. And for a while, it all seems to work—until it doesn't.

Told through diary entries, surveillance logs, bureaucratic reports, and the interjections of a disorganized author who may or may not exist, The Signs Weren't Enough traces the quiet unraveling of a man—and a state—that believed too much in the meanings they invented.

Is Lucky a prophet? A patsy? A philosopher left behind?
And what happens when a society rewrites reality one symbol at a time?

A philosophical mystery and a metaphysical satire, this genre-bending novella explores belief, collapse, and the fragile difference between knowing and almost knowing.

When the signs stop working, who decides what's real?