Fiction, essays, and the occasional poem. Mostly about consciousness, and what it costs to feel connected.
Deep in the jungle.
Every image on this site is the author’s own photograph of the retreat in Peru that inspired the novel.
Wellness Inc.
What do you do when the medicine is more poisonous than the disease?
At a psychedelic wellness retreat deep in the Peruvian jungle at the remote Santuario de Almas Sagradas a shattered man hopes a few good medicine sessions will fix what a lifetime of shame has broken.
“The rational part of my brain is rotting, and the reptile part is eating the carrion.”
“On the surface it looked as though everybody connected. I was on the outside of this connection.”
Journals, essays & verse
Short work, mostly written between builds. Consciousness, connection, and the strange rooms in between.
Browse the archive →A carpenter full of curiosity.
Bryce Duhamel is a carpenter from Canada. He is 42, married to his high-school sweetheart, and they have three of the coolest kids ever. He has no formal education beyond high school, just a tech enthusiast’s curiosity, a long obsession with consciousness, and a lifetime spent insatiably consuming fiction and poetry.
Wellness Inc. is his debut novel. It was inspired by a psychedelic wellness retreat he and his wife attended in Peru.
Agents & publishers
Literary fiction · ≈ 80,000 words · complete debut. Query letter, synopsis, and full manuscript available on request.
Request the manuscript- Title
- Wellness Inc.
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Length
- ≈ 80,000 words
- Status
- Complete · debut
- Setting
- Santuario de Almas Sagradas, Peru