Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism
Coming April 2024 as part of the 404 Ink Inklings series, Electric Dreams dives into the highly-charged (pun intended) topic of sex robots, approached from an anti-capitalist, philosophical, queer, anti-colonialist, and inclusive feminist stance.
Orpheus Builds a Girl
‘I rest easy; I could not have done a thing more for my beloved, nor could I have shown my love in any greater way’
Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his upbringing in Dresden, his beloved Grandmother and his medical career during the second world war. But mostly he remembers his darling Luci, the great love of his life, his dark-haired beauty promised to him in a dream years before they met.
Though only together for a few months in her first life, their love is written in the stars. Using scientific research compiled over decades, Wilhelm ensures that, for him and his beloved, death is only the beginning. But through the cracks in Wilhem’s story there is another voice, that of Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. She tells the story of her sister Luciana, fearless and full of life, and the madman who robbed her from her grave.
Based on a chilling true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is the debut novel from award-winning author Heather Parry.
This Is My Body, Given For You
A girl suffering a bizarre menstrual aberration is exploited by those around her, including her father. A boy expresses his love for a nonhuman man by making himself animalistic. A girl abandoned by her community discovers the possibility of transmutation through cannibalism. A man struggles with his wife’s choices around her existence, and considers whether he should leave her alone in her semi-oblivion, or join her.
In This Is My Body, Given For You, Heather Parry places in our hands fifteen stories in which the body is something that can be changed, altered, and escaped from. With dripping blood, bruised tentacles, and seamed skin, Heather Parry’s debut short story collection will consume you.
The Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide
A practical resource for the increasing number of artists, makers, writers and other creatives working freelance in Scotland today, now updated for 2022/23.
This essential, free-access resource has been created to fill an information gap for creative freelancers to understand their rights and best practices in avoiding and addressing difficult situations. An easy to reference guide, written by Heather Parry and illustrated by Maria Stoian, it uses a highly visual combination of comics and text to highlight key issues, model scenarios and educate creative workers about how to protect themselves with regards to payment, copyright and creative work in general.