Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Acephalic Imperial

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Séverine takes a position as a live-in maid in a house of idleness and luxury. She's informed during her interview that the cleaning and daily meals are already attended to by servants of long-standing. Her duties, which are very few, are as compelling as they are erratic. As it becomes increasingly clear that her employer is subjecting her to a tenuous game of provocation and transgression, she resolves to find out precisely how far his obsessions might be pushed. What follows is a narrative that revolves around a double axis-that of obedience and disobedience, explicit and implicit rules, loyalty and treachery, and the twin heads of the imperial eagle whose icon is found in every region of the house.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Snuggly Books

Release: September 29, 2020

ISBN: 1645250458

ISBN 13: 9781645250456

The Acephalic Imperial

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Séverine takes a position as a live-in maid in a house of idleness and luxury. She's informed during her interview that the cleaning and daily meals are already attended to by servants of long-standing. Her duties, which are very few, are as compelling as they are erratic. As it becomes increasingly clear that her employer is subjecting her to a tenuous game of provocation and transgression, she resolves to find out precisely how far his obsessions might be pushed. What follows is a narrative that revolves around a double axis-that of obedience and disobedience, explicit and implicit rules, loyalty and treachery, and the twin heads of the imperial eagle whose icon is found in every region of the house.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Snuggly Books

Release: September 29, 2020

ISBN: 1645250458

ISBN 13: 9781645250456

More books from Damian Murphy

Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Daughters of Apostasy

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos

4.8/5 ( ratings)

The Man From Düsseldorf: A Tribute to Claus Laufenburg

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Star of Gnosia

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Infra Noir

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Gift of the Kos'mos Cometh! A Homage to Night and Kosmos

4.9/5 ( ratings)

The Exaltation of the Minotaur

Psalms of the Magistrate

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Abyssinia

4.8/5 ( ratings)

All is Full of Hell

4.8/5 ( ratings)

A Spy in the Panopticon

4.9/5 ( ratings)

Wound of Wounds

4.8/5 ( ratings)

The Imperishable Sacraments

The Academy Outside of Ingolstadt

4.8/5 ( ratings)

In Stefan's House: A Weird Fiction Tribute to Stefan Grabiński

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Booklore: A Passion For Books

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A Sunday In Oursel & Other Tales

4.2/5 ( ratings)

E(xtinction)/E(xtinção)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?