Everything Spontaneous in the Land of Doll Parts

One morning, people started burning.
No warning. No mercy.
No way to know if you were next.

They called it SHC: Spontaneous Human Combustion, and when the event ended, it left behind a world of ash, starvation, and the particular silence where other people used to be. Colorado still stands, scorched and barely. The people left in it have learned one thing above all else: the body cannot be trusted. It will betray you without reason, without warning, without the dignity of a final word.

Dante moves through the wilderness on trembling limbs, eating what the dead leave behind. Her hands have turned that purplish hue, devil's hands, she calls them, combustible like everything else. She keeps moving anyway, because Rory is out there somewhere, and that memory is the only thing that hasn't turned to ash.

Rory is still alive too. Still moving. Still carrying every wound through a wilderness that keeps taking. When they find each other, they already know the cost. They choose each other anyway.

Everything Spontaneous in the Land of Doll Parts is a sapphic post-apocalyptic romance that refuses comfort without refusing feeling. Survival horror and emotional depth pressed together until you can't separate them. Two women in a burning world deciding that love isn't a weakness, it's the only thing worth surviving for.

They thought surviving the fire was the hard part. The hard part is deciding what you're surviving for.

For listeners who felt the devastation of Station Eleven, the queer longing of The Price of Salt, and the body horror of The Road, and wondered what it would look like if all three burned together.

Publisher - J.S. Nathnaiel

Language - English

Perfect Bound

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J.S. Nathaniel

Published Date - 2025-06-24

ISBN - 9781967522132

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Page Count - 284