Sodom

Colerus traces the corruption of Sodom through four interlocking narratives: a beggar who gains sudden wealth and loses his humanity, a craftsman whose artistic ambition becomes his undoing, a ruler seduced by absolute power, and a priest wrestling with faith in a city that has abandoned it. Each character embodies a different face of excess, and their trajectories weave together into a portrait of a society devouring itself. The prose carries muscular precision and psychological depth, showing how each character rationalizes their descent until the city's doom becomes not just inevitable but earned. The surprising ending reframes everything that came before it, delivering a conclusion that feels both shocking and inevitable. For readers drawn to moral fiction in the tradition of classical tragedy, or anyone fascinated by the psychology of collapse.