Fedosy Santaella.

 

A novel by Israel Centeno

Arcade unfolds in a city where entertainment, memory, and surveillance quietly overlap.

At its center is an aging Arcade—once a place of play, now a repository of forgotten routines, abandoned machines, and people who no longer know whether they are passing through or being watched. Inside it, stories surface: a man who returns after years of absence, a system that records more than it should, a past that refuses to stay silent.

As the novel progresses, Arcade becomes more than a location. It functions as a mechanism—one that stores gestures, failures, and repetitions, blurring the line between choice and programming. What appears to be a series of small, personal episodes slowly reveals a wider structure of control, nostalgia, and quiet resistance.

Told in installments, the novel mirrors its subject: fragmented, recursive, and unresolved. Each chapter adds a layer, never the full picture.

Arcade is a story about memory under pressure, about spaces that remember us even when we try to forget them, and about the uneasy feeling that the game may have started long before we noticed.

The first installment is released tomorrow.
The system is already running.

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📰 Press Promotion

Israel Centeno, a Venezuelan-born writer and Pittsburgh resident, continues to expand his presence in the city’s cultural scene with new projects that blend literature, digital narrative, and contemporary reflection. At a moment when Pittsburgh is experiencing a vibrant creative resurgence—fueled by community initiatives, independent spaces, and a growing network of immigrant artists—Centeno contributes a distinctive voice that speaks directly to this transformation.

🎧 On Spotify, his podcast El vuelo del águila and the new Arcade Podcast explore stories that awaken, challenge, and reframe how we understand the world, weaving together literature, philosophy, and sharp observation.

✍️ On Substack, Centeno publishes essays, stories, works in progress, and reflections that delve into exile, creativity, and the intellectual life he cultivates in Pittsburgh.

🕹️ On Arcade (WordPress), his creative laboratory, he develops narrative experiments, drafts, and conceptual materials that complement his audio and written work.

👉 Readers and listeners can subscribe on Spotify, Substack, and WordPress to follow a literary project that aligns with what’s happening in Pittsburgh today: a city reinventing itself through art, diversity, and the power of storytelling.

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