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“When moving through the world, if you go fast enough, you forget the agonies of death and time. At least for a little while.”

Still learning the quirks of one another—and their 100cc motorbike—Army and Xi pack their shaky lives into a single shared bag and leave the Caribbean coast of Colombia for Lima, Peru, where they’ve been booked to sing at a friend’s wedding. Whether the bike or their relationship will survive the trip is uncertain, but it’s a plan, and that’s more than they’ve had for a while.

100ccs is an existential barreling toward the end of your twenties—a restless search for certainty and connection along the unknown stretches of the inner road. Swaying seamlessly between the ecstatic and the exacting, Corey Lof examines the illusions of escape, the uneasy ethics of tourism, and the fragile negotiations of intimacy under pressure.

Praise for Corey Lof:

I love this book so much; the story (young romantics in a foreign country), the language (poetic, masculine, compulsive), the hilarious, badass female character, the protagonist (male), a romantic (in love with the hilarious badass); I found myself falling for both of them (and this on-the-road in South America tale). I read the whole thing in a couple hours. I felt less cynical about men while reading. I could pause, say to myself, oh, yes, I remember now, love.

—Elizabeth Ellen, author of American Thighs, editor of Hobart and SF/LD Books

This book is like the sensation that comes sometimes when you’re in a novel place with your compass tipped slightly out of true. You’re broke. Your relationship (and yes, your life) may damn well be on the line. The shit of the world is nipping at your heels, but you’re holding hands with that person (for the moment, not fighting), and the sky fires infinity. You’re on the brink of revelation. Somewhere in the soup of depravity and longing, of repeating, “It’s fine, it’s fine,” there’s a song humming in a language and melody you recognize but can’t understand. You’re struck dumb on the side of a mountain in the colors of Heaven, thinking: if I could just tell someone, share this feeling, have them understand. What would that be like? That’s what this book is like. One of the best I’ve read in a long time.

—Tyler Dempsey, author of Denali, Alaska

“100ccs is a motorcycle ride into the scariest abyss of them all—the abyss of truth. Corey Lof writes unflinchingly about the truth of travel, the truth of love, and the truth of purpose. It is rare that a writer explores with such honesty those things that are essential to our existence yet remain the most unknowable and most daunting to us.”

—Mason Parker, author of Until the Red Swallows It All

“100ccs is a magnetic chronicle, a behind-the-scenes look at the romanticized Latin American road trip. Every element is present in the right amount: the strained love, the unstable political and economical backdrop, the “gringo in Latin America” stereotype, the adventure, the late-twenties mindset. Narrated in a way that flows in perfect sync with the story’s changing rhythm— smooth and sweet, stressful and escalating—in a self-aware, yet naïve, voice trapped in that limbo between childhood and adulthood, with no idea how to be and no escape. The world always finds a way to crush you wherever you happen to be. Even in the middle of the road, in the middle of nowhere, with no one around.”

—Marina Caamaño, author of Souvenirs from Mar del Plata

“100ccs is a book about relationships and everything that gets lost (and found) in translation. It’s also really funny. Corey Lof is the real deal. This book proves it.”

—Troy James Weaver, author of Marigold

ISBN: 978-1-951226-26-8

Page Count: 212

Price: $14.95

Release Date: 22 September 2026