First Night In Vegas

First Night in Vegas is not a story about a city—it is a descent into illusion, identity, and the fragile architecture of human experience.

Through a haunting collection of long-form poems, Samuel Ludke constructs a world where neon lights blur into memory, where glass houses shatter under the weight of truth, and where the sound of existence itself hums just beneath the surface of reality. Vegas becomes more than a place—it becomes a living metaphor for excess, illusion, desire, and the qui...