The Flawless Imperative
Some stories don’t start with a character—they start with a question. For The Flawless Imperative, the question was this:
What happens when the pursuit of perfection becomes more dangerous than the flaws it seeks to erase?
This book was born out of my frustration with our cultural obsession with “fixing” people—our bodies, our genes, our minds, our behaviors—as if humanity itself were a defect that simply needed better software. What began as a sci-fi premise quickly became something deeper and more personal: a psychological and philosophical exploration of trauma, identity, and the commodification of survival.
The Premise: At the Edge of Cure and Control
Set in a near-future world where genetic engineering is not just normalized but weaponized, The Flawless Imperative follows Dr. Adair Chandra, a brilliant geneticist who believes he’s created a cure that could end disease forever.
But when his discovery is co-opted by a powerful biotech conglomerate, the line between medicine and manipulation blurs fast. Suddenly, the cure becomes a tool—not for healing, but for “cleansing.” What was meant to empower humanity now threatens to rewrite it.
“The first thing they asked me was not what can it heal, but what can it erase.”
— The Flawless Imperative
This is a world where survival is based on genetic desirability. Where disability is a liability. Where queerness, neurodivergence, and difference aren’t just stigmatized—they’re systematically deleted.
Sound familiar?
The Real-World Roots: Perfection as a Weapon
I wrote this book with one eye on the future and the other on the present. Because the truth is: we’re already here.
From eugenics to conversion therapy, from “designer babies” to algorithmic bias, we live in a world constantly trying to flatten difference. To standardize identity. To optimize people into versions of themselves that are more palatable, more productive, more… profitable.
And as someone who has survived conversion therapy, cancer, and the American healthcare system—I’ve seen firsthand how systems that claim to “help” can just as easily harm.
“Flawless wasn’t the goal. It was the excuse.”
— The Flawless Imperative
The Characters: Resistance in Human Form
Adair, our protagonist, isn’t a hero in the traditional sense. He’s flawed, idealistic, complicit, and burdened by guilt. But he’s also a mirror: of what happens when someone with good intentions becomes entangled in a system built to crush nuance.
Then there’s Omar, a queer hacker who believes in liberation over regulation, and Signe, a former biotech executive turned whistleblower. These are not archetypes—they’re survivors. People forced to live in the gray space between self-preservation and moral clarity.
Each character in The Flawless Imperative is fighting for a different vision of freedom—and none of them are clean.
That was intentional.
Why It’s Important to Me
Because this book is, at its heart, about the fight for complexity in a world that wants us to be simple.
It’s about the right to exist as we are. Not as marketing segments. Not as medical liabilities. Not as flawed inputs in need of correction.
As humans.
Messy. Gorgeous. Complicated. Real.
A Warning and a Hope
The Flawless Imperative is a cautionary tale. But it’s also a cry of resistance. A demand for space. A refusal to let ourselves be streamlined out of existence.
“If perfection is the cost of survival, then maybe the flaw was the world all along.”
— The Flawless Imperative
I wrote this book not because I believe we’re heading toward this dystopia—but because I think we’re already too close to it. And I believe stories have power. They can shake us. Wake us. Remind us what’s at stake when we forget the beauty of being unoptimized.
So if you’ve ever been told you’re too much, too broken, too complicated, too expensive to save—this book is for you.
Not to fix you.
To honor you.