In Stone and Shadow
January 7th, 2026 — The mirror does not merely reflect; it dissects. As we move through this calendar year, Jono invites you to bear witness to the fracturing of the human façade. Below are the inaugural announcements for the triptych that dismantles the architecture of the self.
January 7th, 2026: The Architecture of Vanity
Publication: 360 Degrees of Self-Interest
The embers of Los Angeles have cooled, but the rot remains exposed. Today, Borden releases the screenplay 360 Degrees of Self-Interest—a biting, claustrophobic satire that marks the centre point of our unfolding trilogy.
The Logline:When a wildfire encircles a disaster-proof museum, a crew of chic billionaire collectors must outlast both flame and flaw, discovering that the fiercest competition is not for art but for who survives being seen.
Written to mark the first anniversary of the inferno, this work serves as a diagnostic tool for the hyper-privileged. When the world—and the forest—demands total surrender, what happens to those who have built their identities out of glass, steel, and curated ego? Within these pages, the fire is not the antagonist; the real heat comes from the desperate, performative agony of those who realize that in the end, they are nothing more than decorative objects waiting to melt.
March 5th, 2026: Entombing the Empire
Publication: The Geometry of Ruin
On this day, 120 years ago, the final detachment of the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers departed Halifax, closing a chapter that began at the city’s inception in 1749. To honor this ghostly exit, Jono releases The Geometry of Ruin.
The Premise: In 1870s Halifax, a principled Royal Engineer and a battle-scarred Royal Artillery officer, tasked with the completion of a coastal fortress, find their duty compromised by a sudden, terrifying intimacy. As they labour over stone and mortar, they unearth a secret entombed within the very walls of the fort—a truth so dissonant it threatens to shatter the veneer of the British Empire itself.
History is a fortress, and every stone is laid upon a secret. This is a study of two men attempting to construct order in a dying era, unaware that the shadow they are casting is already becoming a tomb.
October 20th, 2026: The Mirror Shattered
Publication: The Obsidian Mirror Trilogy: A Study in Stone and Shadow
On the anniversary of the bard’s thirty-ninth year, the triptych is finally made whole. What began with Borden’s Lord Byron biopic, Lightning in the Veins, flashes brilliantly across a cycle of scripted devastation.
The Obsidian Mirror is a collective excavation of the psyche. By mapping the untamed wilderness of the heart against the rigid constraints of history, chemistry, and architecture, this trilogy investigates the futility of containment. It is a progression of narratives: a dark period drama, a sharp contemporary farce, and a final, inevitable descent.
Across these disparate settings, the recurring theme remains constant: the desperate, often ruinous quest to exert control over existence when the world—and our own nature—demands absolute surrender.
The collection is available now, as individual and collected scripts. Look into the stone. Observe the shadow. The Obsidian Mirror: Chronicles of Control and Collapse. A Study in Stone and Shadow.
Which of these fractured reflections do you intend to confront first?
