![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Monique is a transgender woman whose love for Donna has ruined Donna’s career. As dark and as dangerous as the underworld becomes, the life that her protagonist has had to endure is equally as dark and foreboding. Hailey Piper draws us into this dark underworld by not only capturing the despair of those whom the world has abandoned but also by drawing us into the subterranean world of her characters’ souls. She goes in search of her love and that search takes her deep into the underworld of a cult that is waiting for its god, the Worm, to return. Monique, Donna’s lover and one of the abandoned (by society and her family), believes the creature has taken Donna to its lair. The novella begins with a monster kidnapping homeless women from an enclave of the lost in an abandoned subway line under New York City. There are layers within layers with layers to this story. The Worm and His Kings is that kind of novella. Orpheus Descending, Dante’s Inferno, Blade Runner, The Old Man and the Sea. It’s when the story takes on a kind of life that makes you think of bigger things. Call it literature, call it art, call it what you like. There comes a time for every reader that they suddenly realize that they are not just reading a good story, but that they are also reading something that has transcended simple good storytelling and entered the realm of the special. ![]()
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