The past weeks have been pregnant with renovation for me.
I always had a bittersweet taste about some of my fiction; it was a bit too explicit to really breathe, and too mechanically erotic. So, I set out to comprehensively rewrite them, starting with the short stories before moving to the Eriagor novellas that Kitten and I wrote together.
It’s been Fun. It’s been frustrating. It’s been productive in ways I did not believe possible.
Anne’s Sub is now a fully-fledged novella with a lot of depth and emotion, with a new, self-standing coda, Catalina, and two short story prequels, called The Student and Saigon Blue.
The Asylum is now a dark, intense novella steeped in transformation, institutional horror, retribution, closure and acceptance that retribution does not leave you unchanged.
Rebirth is a cyberpunk sci-fi novella; there’s a lot to unpack in it — commoditised body harvesting, brain harvesting, meta humanism, and rebuilding.
Breaking Free is a recovery story. It includes dark subject matter like abduction and trafficking, but the undercurrent is about healing, trauma, and agency.
Georg is an experimental short story that may yet result in something more significant, building upon a premise: What would the world today look like if there hadn’t been institutionalised research?
I sincerely hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed crafting them.