Hot Fruit
Orphanage origins, family objects, meals and fables shape lives built around beginnings that cannot be securely known.
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She Who Remains
Measuring the cost of remaining alive when survival requires self-erasure.
Exhibition
A photographer watches her own images sell as a dead woman's self-portraits. The question is which of them made the work.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A year of pharmaceutical sleep staged as transformation, ending in confirmation that conscious life happens to other people.
Elena Knows
A mother crosses Buenos Aires after her daughter is found dead in a church belfry, certain that rain proves what the police refuse to see.
The South
A failing farm in southern Malaysia. A queer attraction formed across unequal access to exit. The South asks who can leave, and at what cost.
Women Without Men
A compressed feminist fable set around 1950s Iran, where women leave male authority and find freedom taking stranger, unfinished forms.
Handsome
A novel of marriage, memory and Alzheimer's narrated by a woman whose case against her husband survives her failing mind.
1984
Orwell builds dread out of objects, rooms and procedures. The final section explains what the first two hundred pages made you feel.
While The World Slept
A Nigerian short story collection about queer life, family pressure, religious judgement and the cost of being known.
Box Hill
A six-year BDSM relationship written as a study of unequal access: a flat without a key, a man without a surname, a death without a grave.
Explanation Under Pressure
An event occurs without becoming motive. Explanation is demanded, but the act remains without justification.