Maladaptive

Maladaptive

By J. D. Edwin
Stories born of maladaptive daydreaming

About the Book

A daughter discovers the source of her own false memories in a world where thoughts take physical form in “The Drawer”. A driver for hire dissatisfied with the monotony of life finds that there’s still fantasy and magic to be had in the world when he encounters a passenger from another world in “The Ambassador”. A circus comes to town and brings with it intrigue, nostalgia, and a strange twist of the real and unreal in the “Shangaville Circus” tales. And in “Divine January”, the roles of predator and prey are not quite what they seem.

Take a journey through these fourteen evocative stories and discover what happens when the mind wanders, drifts, and creates, in “Maladaptive.”

About the Author

J. D. Edwin is a writer of character-driven speculative fiction both long and short. She is a fan of books of all genres, but specifically horror, urban fantasy, and science fiction. Her short fiction work is currently published through the online magazine Short Fiction Break, where she is a staff contributor, and her commercial page-turner, Headspace, a soft sci-fi novel in the spirit of Hunger Games and Battle Royale, releases July 13 2021.

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