A simple pursuit of knowledge
on the internet leads to a sordid moral free fall.
Like Alice losing perspective as she tumbled into
Wonderland, an innocent but ambitious writer
finds her way into a writing class on e-mail only
to discover that her imagination is being raped
by her gangster professors and her fellow
students. Steadily, as her awareness gives way to
anger and her creativity turns to vengeance, she
moves to impale her exploiters on their own
electronic petards. It is a master stroke that
could only have been conceived and written by a
woman clinging to a receding innocence as she
aspires to power, driven to humiliate the solons
who smugly think themselves to be her patrons.
-- Chammain el Fauk, staff writer
People's Freedom
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Imagine, a young woman whose
seething ambition at least matches her literary
talent. Yearning to signify she attacks the
internet like a hissing she cat, seeking to gain
the tricks of the trade being proferred by
eminent and self advertised writing masters via
e-mail. Quickly she learns that the respectable
profs are ripping off their pupils, snatching
plot lines and cribbing characters, while at the
same time stiffening their flagging libidos
through private correspondence. They steal her
work and think they can pay her off with virtual
sex. She plots her revenge, luring them in,
turning tables as she turns them into the
characters of her own work, ensnaring them in a
novel that Italo Calvino would have been happy to
read, and perhaps to write.
-- Mihaela Manfuck, senior editor
Women Now!
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