Reliable Consumer Profiles

A young man loses his job. A waitress falls for a regular. A father snatches the moon to aid their sleepless child.

Reliable Consumer Profiles is forty-two shards of the shattered American Dream, a collection of compact stories capturing the quiet, often overlooked lives of 21st-century Americans— middle- and working-class men and women navigating jobs that don't pay enough, relationships that don't quite connect, and identities shaped more by resignation than triumph. While some tales slip into the surreal or absurd, most remain grounded in the petty, thankless grit of everyday existence. Together, they weave a matrix of brief, piercing glimpses into what it means to be invisible in a world obsessed with broadcasting itself.