Some things begin as a sketch before they become real.

Welcome to Chaos is a collection of illustrated poetry for the strange little spaces between reason and imagination. Here, haunted houses remember your name, ghosts have manners, coffee keeps the dead on a schedule, and ordinary objects occasionally decide to stop behaving.

Across five crooked sections, LJ Faulkner moves between gothic horror, grief, dark humor, family, memory, and the quietly bizarre moments hiding inside everyday life. Hand-drawn-style graphite sketches accompany the poems, giving the collection the feel of a notebook where thoughts, memories, and little horrors have slowly come to life.

Some pieces are eerie. Some are funny. Some hurt a little.

Most live somewhere in the grey area.