The Puzzle

Reader draft, September 2026

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Two ways to read it: a PDF and EPUB, or a three-hour audiobook read by a synthetic voice (Mason will narrate the real one). Tell me who you are and it's yours.

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The M4B opens in Apple Books with chapter markers. Chapter-by-chapter MP3s and a single MP3 are in the audio folder.

One ask while you read: jot down the chapter and roughly where, any time you skim or stop. Everything else can wait until you finish. Please don't forward the draft.

When you've finished

Answer these after, not during. Short and blunt is more useful than polished. If you jotted the places where you skimmed or stopped, this is where they go.

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1Your name

Email (so Mason can follow up)

2Where did you skim, stop, or get confused?Chapter and roughly where. Every spot counts, even ones you pushed through. 3Did the Vision in Chapter 1 hold you? Where did you decide to keep going?Or where did you almost not. 4Did the diagnosis in Chapter 8 change how you saw what came before? 5The book in one sentence. 6One thing to cut, one thing you wanted more of. 7Who would you hand it to?A real person, and why them. +Anything elseWhatever didn't fit above. Reactions, questions, a line you loved, a line you hated.

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Got it. Thank you, this is exactly the kind of help the book needs right now. Mason may reach out with a follow-up question or two.

Reader draft, September 2026. Please don't forward the manuscript. The Puzzle on Substack