Jaded, “maidenless,” hyper-sensitive. Savoy Matviyenko is a biracial femoid at odds with the world. Not a female incel, or a normie “feeeemale,” but someone caught in the murky interstices between the two. When she isn’t doom-scrolling the dark recesses of the deep web, drawing digital p*rn for sicko clients, grinding away at a dead-end job, or lurking in dingy comedy clubs with her slovenly roommate, Dax, she fancies herself a future botanist, a would-be comedian or poet, a present-day edgelord who’s *totally not like other girls.*
Once Savoy starts “courting” (stalking) Avery Bazin, a burgeoning sculptor with a penchant for Cioran, her underlying psychological imbalances tip her towards instability. Her delusional notions of romance—spurred on by her tumultuous upbringing and neurotic idealism—steer her into a crash course of self-reconciliation. Can a hopelessly romantic femoid keep it together long enough to find love in today’s caustic, chronically online culture? Or is an ADHD-riddled “BPD baddie” like Savoy destined to be forever alone with her pet slugs (ಥ_ಥ)? After an unhinged stand-up debut that almost lands her in the can, and some (*kwazy*) time spent on the brink of s*icidal collapse, Savoy must overcome the loathing of her era and find her way back to Earth.
*Femoid* is a metamodern novel whose hybrid pastiche of styles reflects the fractured mindset of Gen Z and the pluralized toxicity they were born into. It embodies a new alternative archetype in literature, giving shape to an urgent ethos for a disoriented generation.
(From the author of *Echolalia Review: An Anti-Poetry Collection.*)
Nel cuore pulsante della Milano notturna, tra luci stroboscopiche e sogni scintillanti,
Asia gestisce la discoteca del suo ex fidanzato Francesco, uno dei locali più esclusivi della città, frequentato da persone facoltose e da chi ruota intorno al mondo della moda. Caterina, moglie di Francesco, ex modella altezzosa e irascibile, è attanagliata da conflitti interiori e grossi problemi psicologici, e sfoga le proprie frustrazioni sui dipendenti del locale, spesso umiliandoli in pubblico. Un tragico evento incanala gli eventi lungo una china pericolosa e inarrestabile.
Tra boriosi figli di papà e giovani ragazze disposte a tutto pur di raggiungere la notorietà, tra giornaliste a caccia di scandali e uomini della sicurezza dall'aspetto poco incoraggiante, l'autore indaga nell'animo dei protagonisti al di là delle luci della ribalta, mettendo in evidenza sentimenti e comportamenti solitamente nascosti dall'immagine pubblica.
Nessuno è innocente, e al Mediterraneo la verità è la danza più pericolosa di tutte.
Have you ever seen a pregnant elf? Halfling quintuplets? A tiny bearded dwarf baby or a six foot tall GIANT baby?\
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In a land where Maternal Magic once protected every mother and child, birth has become deadly. Fresh out of midwizardry school, Izzie is determined to use her blood magic to save lives.
Maternal Magic is waning each year. She’s lost friends and patients. And no one knows why. Haunted by an ancient ritual that went tragically wrong, Izzie has sworn to do no more harm. But when Cosconia’s twelve races vie for the formerly uninhabitable Wasteland, war threatens to consume the continent—and somehow Izzie ends up in the middle of the conflict.
What’s a wartime midwizard to do? Izzie must face the trauma of her past—which might have more to do with their current predicament than she realizes—and possibly make peace with a very attractive, very annoying wizard.
He wakes up in a different body.
So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman.
And so Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a world he must learn to navigate, and a government he can't trust.
**The Visitor** is a unique blend of science fiction, social commentary, and human drama, with dystopian and literary elements. It explores identity, alienation, social and political conditions, and government overreach in our current society from the viewpoint of an outsider--an alien spirit which has replaced that of a human after an automobile accident--or is he really just a human soul affected by a traumatIc brain injury? For those who love stories like *Stranger in a Strange Land, 1984,* works of Philip K. Dick, and Kashuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go.*
He’s an arrogant ex-military cybercrime expert, I can’t resist him this could be my last chance at love.
We’re forced to work together so being with him is off-limits because it could complicate our mission, and the entire NSA system could fail.
We must stop a ruthless hacker from threatening U.S. infrastructure.
He is a ruggedly handsome alpha male with a great sense of humor and such perfect eye candy.
The electric sparks between us are evident but I must focus on solving the urgent security breach.
Together, we make an unstoppable team; Eli’s tech genius and my forensic expertise in profiling hackers. I anticipate their moves, and Eli executes plans with military precision bringing my strategies to life.
Cybercrimes won’t stop, and criminal masterminds make these cases increasingly complex.
Falling in love could get in the way, ruin my professional reputation, and put the country at risk.
Logic has always been my fallback, and surrendering to love has never been easy, but maybe Eli might be my happily ever after.
<p><i>Northanger Abbey</i> is the coming-of-age story of Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old girl who’s entering society for the first time. Despite her naivete, she quickly gains two potential suitors. We follow Catherine as she tries to navigate the difficulties of romance, friendship, and responsibility—problems amplified by the fact that Catherine views her world through the lens of the dramatic Gothic novels she loves to read. Austen deftly satirizes both the Gothic novels popular at the time (especially <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe">Ann Radcliffe’s</a> <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe/the-mysteries-of-udolpho"><i>The Mysteries of Udolpho</i></a>), as well as contemporary society and women’s role in it.</p> <p>Completed in 1803, Northanger Abbey was the first of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen">Jane Austen’s</a> novels to be completed, but it was only published posthumously in 1817.</p>
