The SF Sideshow is a dark urban fantasy set in modern San Francisco, where magic exists in plain sight — unnoticed, disregarded, until it becomes impossible to ignore.
After crossing paths with a mysterious journal, Devin Striker is pulled into a supernatural conflict that bleeds into every corner of the city. Entities that wear human faces hunt him through streets he once knew, while reality buckles under the weight of occult forces, grief, and choices that can’t be undone.
Marked by power he doesn’t understand and haunted by the woman he lost, Striker is drawn into a hidden war that treats human lives as collateral damage. He is not alone. Others move through the city with their own histories, wounds, and entanglements — their stories intersecting as the cost of magic continues to rise.
This is a story about obsession and agency. About power that leaves scars instead of answers. And about what happens when magic collides with a world that refuses to believe in it… until it has no choice.
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