Transgressive Fiction Author, Storyteller, Post Modernism Literature, Book Cover Design, Writing Mentorship

A personal reflection on sex as political language and the role of transgressive fiction in exposing how women’s desires are controlled across cultures. From Iran to Paris, the post explores why female autonomy remains taboo, how the Lust in Paris trilogy challenges these narratives, and why the first book Red Wings speaks to today’s global debates on power, identity and womanhood.

An exploration of “Post Transgressive Fiction,” tracing how the genre changed after 9/11 from pure shock and nihilism to a metamodern blend of brutality, sincerity, and fragile optimism. With Chuck Palahniuk’s comments, recent films, and indie presses, the piece maps a new direction for TF.

A deep exploration redefining transgressive fiction—from shock and taboo to transformation, ethics, and self-reflection in contemporary literature.

Explore how the female gaze reclaims narrative perspective in literature by centering women as subjects of desire, interpretation, and agency. This article examines theoretical foundations, examples across global traditions, and practical strategies for writers to subvert the male gaze, reframe embodiment, and create narratives that foreground women’s voices, complexity, and power.

Author Rory Hughes discusses his hallucinatory debut novel Theseus 34, a dark descent into mythology, morality, and human desire. From early influences on acid with Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to obsessive research into the internet’s darkest corners, Hughes reflects on addiction, unhealthy relationships with writing, and the haunting mix of delight and horror in publishing his first book.

This article explores female archetypes in literature (the witch, femme fatale, martyr, and warrior) and how they reflect both resistance and patriarchal fear. Through six subversive strategies and examples from the author’s works (Bella Donna, Us, Women, Counting Crows, Red Wings), it advocates for complex, layered portrayals of women that challenge reductive tropes and reimagine archetypes as sites of narrative and political transformation.