Crystal Lake Publishing is thrilled to announce the release of The Isochron Treatment by Gregg Stewart. Stewart is an author, songwriter, and multidisciplinary storyteller whose work spans dark fiction, speculative fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting. His stories have appeared in anthologies and publications from Hellbound Books (UK), Crimson Quill Quarterly, Black Cat Publishing, and Sleyhouse Entertainment. His YA supernatural-horror novella Kim Reaper (Graveside Press) launched
in 2025. In addition to his writing, Stewart facilitates creative writing workshops and storytelling events designed to help people reconnect with their voice, imagination, and creative purpose. The Isochron Treatment is a lean and fast-paced book with a future-noir tone reminiscent of 12 Monkeys and Dark Matter.
Feiyu “Theo” Smith doesn’t remember murdering four people. The evidence collected by the DNA-processing drone says otherwise. Now he’s languishing in San Quentin with no contact from family or his former fiancé for three long years.
It’s 2044, and in the dystopian reality of New California Republic, condemned inmates can volunteer for experimental drug testing to avoid lethal injection.
Researchers claim the revolutionary therapy known as the “Isochron Treatment” will rewrite the man’s immune response. But the vivid, horrific nightmares he experiences while under the drug’s effects lead him to suspect it may be rewriting his past, forcing him to remember things he does not wish to remember. It’s either that, or he’s going insane. Or maybe, just maybe, the drug’s main side-effect is not nightmares, but time travel.
Is there a chance he could prove his innocence by going straight to the scene of the crime?
Kyle Toucher, author of The Medusa Psalms and Live Wire, says the book is, “A small story packed with big ideas. Time-loops are always a tough nut, and Gregg Stewart cracks this one with a hammer.”
