This Is Not a Test, But We're Still Failing

Bris is an American Bully built like a sofa with opinions. The narrator is a man who has stopped expecting the world to make sense. Together they walk through exhibits that feel uncomfortably familiar: bad ideas dressed as progress, well-meaning disasters, religious stand-offs, economic sinkholes, political theatre, and the quiet mistakes no one admits to making.

The narrator talks. Bris talks back. No one else hears him, and that is fine. Between the dog's blunt honesty and the man's dry ob...