Dark Comedy

Alma lives on a rural Vermont homestead, raising her children, tending animals, and managing a household while her husband teaches at a nearby college. But beneath the rhythms of domestic life, she feels increasingly isolated from the creative ambitions and independent identity she has sacrificed. Her fascination with Celeste, a confident ceramicist whose life seems to embody everything Alma lacks, grows into an unsettling obsession. One night, Alma drives away from home, and her memories reveal the tensions that have brought her to this breaking point. Surreal, darkly funny, and psychologically incisive, The Shame explores motherhood, envy, artistic longing, and the quiet desperation of a life that no longer feels like one’s own.

What happens when an unemployed actor agrees to spend his university lectures zipped inside an oversized black leather bag? Hired by Professor Dr. Blend for an unusual psychological experiment, the nameless protagonist soon discovers that his strange new role has consequences far beyond the classroom. As a professor develops an unexpected fascination with the person hidden inside the bag and his childhood friend sees an opportunity to turn the experiment into a business, anonymity becomes both a refuge and a trap. Surreal, absurdly funny, and unexpectedly tender, Black Bag is a satirical campus novel exploring masculinity, identity, loneliness, and the struggle to connect in a world obsessed with visibility and self-promotion.

A celebrated trans actress has everything she once dreamed of: a successful career, a wealthy lawyer husband, a beautiful home, and an adopted son she fiercely loves. Yet beneath the polished surface of domestic happiness, she feels trapped between the freedom she has fought for and the expectations of conventional family life. When a visit to her rural hometown forces her to confront the prejudice and pain of her past, the life she has carefully constructed begins to fracture. Provocative, darkly funny, and emotionally raw, A Domestication explores desire, gender, class, and the uneasy price of belonging.