Keeping a tight grasp on feelings that refuse to whither, The Lover documents her journey whilst living in the countryside. She reflects on actions, desires, and the past with wet lips and a steady hand, until the one she’s been writing to appears in the flesh.
Spring blooms in The Lover’s heart as she attempts to reside in the familiar, but insecurity and fear hold her back. In a show of utter vulnerability, the Lover bares it all. The dark, weird, and beautiful fantasies she’s been too afraid to share leak onto the page as her letters descend into the disturbing and taboo, leaving her wondering what words—if any—will be returned.
Ten Dry Years is a collection of erotic letters intent on exploring the ethics of fantasy, the complexity of vulnerability, and the curiosity of sexual stimuli.
There are many ways in which one can achieve freedom—the blade of a straight razor, a window into a different dimension, or even something as ordinary as a toilet bowl. In these five short stories you’ll witness a wide speculative range: from the mundane life of a cheese-slicer trying to escape a parasite, to a young girl’s extraordinary ability to stop time. Each story explores the decisions made when pressed against the horrors of a challenging past until life then starts, breathlessly, anew.
On a cold winter’s night three friends, Birdie, Tizel, and George, struggle to stay alive with a half-quart bottle of gin and a story. What enfolds is the narrative of a world not unlike our own, one in which people value beauty as the highest measures of success. To heighten the stakes, a superficial disease has distorted parts of the population, deforming the human figure into something too unsightly for the public eye. An uprising is sure to occur, but at whose hand? Surrounding this are a number of moving parts–a family at odds with the past, two women in love, and a group of friends struggling through transgressions. Birdie weaves a captivating tale, but is it enough to keep them alive until daybreak?
From the outside, Daphne Zeledyne and Hazel Wright look like an impressive power couple—being that Daphne is a practicing doctor and an even more brilliant inventor, while Hazel is well known in the courtroom for taking on some of New York’s more prominent cases. Heavily layered with sophistication and refinement, no one can see that their marriage is not what it appears.
Told through the perspective of Hazel, who is secretly being controlled by her wife via a mind-control device, she recounts their daily lives and history while struggling to break free. The situation seems bleak, after all, Hazel has spent the last four years attempting to draw attention to her situation. However, when her law firm hires a new associate who has been a long-time admirer of Hazel, a new relationship is formed—one that carries guilt and danger into an already tumultuous mix.
Women In Gray explores the common pressures associated with matrimonial lifestyle, various ethical questions concerning the rights and wrongs of humanity, and the complicated nuances of three women struggling to find and feel love within the bounds of a broken society.
There’s a quietness, an empty space, that surrounds your life after losing someone you love. Autumn lives in that empty space, day after day, following the same routine, in unresolved angst. She doesn’t know how to keep her head above water until the arrival of May, a mysterious dream-like girl. Autumn finds refuge in their quickly defined friendship. As her mother falls deeper into depression, Autumn doesn’t see a way out of her current situation, until May shows her that anything is possible.
However, nothing is what it seems and Autumn has to decipher if the relationship she has built with May is real.
Autumn and May is a young adult novel that delves into grief and loss, presenting beauty and pain in an embrace readers will remember.
KD Rye 