The coffee was cold. Made two hours, 32 minutes, and 20 seconds ago.

The caffeine will remain potent for another 21 hours, 27 minutes, and 36 seconds.

Right hand, clad in black surgical gloves, gripped the mug, downing the tepid, oil-colored liquid before setting it behind her. Her eyes, much like her left hand, remained on task. The pipes above her, behind her, took quick breaths. The generator at her feet shuddered and gasped, galvanic mechanisms pumping electric currents. The glass flutes bubbled with clear liquid, flexible tubes pumping cooling fluid through the needles piercing the body underneath the sheet.

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Grief remade her. Once a woman of science and wonder, Victoria now moves through a world hollowed by loss — a cathedral of smoke and silence. In the hush of her workshop, where gears turn like rosaries and glass hums with trapped breath, she seeks what the heavens have denied her: life born from death, beauty drawn from decay.

When her creation stirs beneath the storm, it opens its eyes not to the light, but to her — the mother, the maker, the mourner. Between them blooms something fragile and forbidden, a tenderness that teeters on the edge of ruin. Every touch is a confession; every breath, a betrayal of nature itself.

In a city gilded with Art Deco splendor and corroded by secrets, Victoria becomes both god and ghost, haunted by the love she has forged from grief’s raw marrow.

A re-imagining of Frankenstein steeped in shadow and sorrow, Victoria is a gothic elegy for the ones we cannot let go — and the monstrous beauty born when we try.

Welcome to Victoria, a Gothic reimagining of Frankenstein, where a genderbent Victor commits the same blasphemous act of reanimation.

Not because she can.

Because something was taken.

And neither God, nor time, nor grief would give it back.

Due to the gothic and erotic nature of ‘Victoria’, this will not be a free serialized novel. This will be available to premium subscribers.

However, for those premium subscribers, I plan on putting future serializations on Substack first before Kindle or KU, thus ALL future publications, from ‘Victoria’ to ‘Letters Between Sex and Violence vol. 4’ will be accessible for premium subscribers.

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Schedule

Episodes of ‘Victora’ will, tentatively, be released weekly on Thursday as this would be perfect for #ThrowbackThursdays (throwing it way far back). When an episode is released or scheduled, I will announce it on my newsletter.

Not only that but comments and a chat dedicated to each episode for my publications will open for critique on Thursday as well!

Without further ado…enter the world of ‘Victoria’.