Every day, Griffin Batt goes to work at his job where he cuts off his left hand in a single swift strike.

Griffin Batt hates his job where he cuts off his left hand in a single swift strike.

He hates his crumbling apartment, where the floorboards swell like infected flesh. He hates the algorithm-fed hustle gurus who insist his suffering is a growth opportunity. The only thing he loves is his fat orange cat, Mr. President.

But when he gets fired mid-amputation, he must navigate gig work, sex work, and a grotesque corporate dystopia to get his hand back. Griffin is determined to put himself back together, come hell or high water. Unfortunately, he’s definitely encountering both hell and high water, along with plumbers wielding chainsaws, professional dog killers, monstrous pig-human hybrids, and Jun Saito-James, the handsome medical supply clerk who becomes his last tether to humanity, before he can find his way to anything like happiness in a world where the water grows teeth.