{"product_id":"the-ultraviolet-moth","title":"The Ultraviolet Moth","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA river runs through a village-city that is slowly becoming more city than village. On its bridge, a young orphan sings the weary home from the factories — a child held alive by the small kindnesses of strangers, by the leftovers of a candle-lit restaurant, by a stolen seat at the local theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThen a man in the highest tower of the industrial quarter reaches into a dream and catches something he was never meant to touch: a pair of ultraviolet moths, brilliant beyond reason. He traps them. He multiplies them. He gives them, one by one, to the village-city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhat follows is a slow, terrible enchantment. The villagers fall silent. Their gait slows, their eyes dull, their laughter shrinks into the spaces between glances at the glass. The boy is forgotten. He grows hungry. And in the shadows of his alley, a creature with a spiralling staff and a deep-well voice offers him a bargain — bring me the moths, and I will feed you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ultraviolet Moth\u003c\/em\u003e is a short mythopoetic fable — a 78-page allegory written in the lyrical register of Ryan Dickinson's poetry — about a community under a spell it doesn't know it's living, and the figures who move through it: the orphan, the trickster, the lost scientist, and the dream. It is a story about the cost of fantasy, the necessity of disturbance, and the songs that survive even the deepest forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFor readers of Paulo Coelho, Kahlil Gibran and Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryan Dickinson","offers":[{"title":"PDF","offer_id":48314815840500,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48314815873268,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover Pre-Order","offer_id":48314815906036,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/3436\/6452\/files\/UVMothCover_4b8cb5ee-2635-493b-8a6f-4d18ad99576e.png?v=1779354808","url":"https:\/\/ryan-dickinson.com\/products\/the-ultraviolet-moth","provider":"Ryan Dickinson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}