This Week: Misremembered Lives, Weaponized Nostalgia, and Love Without Ownership

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Stories

(Monday. Wednesday)

“Childhood Sold Separately”

This surreal horror story examines consumerism, millennial nostalgia, and what happens when the things that once comforted us learn how to sell our memories back to us.

“Her Body Arrived First”

A piece of micro-fiction about identity, institutional memory, and the quiet horror of being defined by people, or systems, that never really knew you.

Essay

(Friday)

“Love Isn't Ownership”

This essay examines how surveillance became intimacy, why privacy is not the same as secrecy, and what happens when we begin treating love as something we can secure through possession.

Store Spotlight

 Unplug & Rewind: Retro Millennial Coloring Posters — $2

This week, I’m adding something small, inexpensive, and deliberately offline to the store.

Unplug & Rewind is a downloadable collection of 13 colorable posters for millennials who need a break from being reachable.

Updates and Announcements

I am continuing to query my linked speculative collection, You Are Here, a surreal journey through an institutional mall-world where every system insists it is functioning exactly as intended.

I am also about 40% done with drafting my current primary project, a novel tentatively titled "Malcolm, Minor Demon." The general gist is below, but if you're interested, "Entry Level Haunter" and "The Picasso of Poor Life Decisions" are both standalone stories that will be featured in the novel. 

Malcolm is an undersized, anxious demon working an entry-level job at Hellcorp, where employees use micro-possession and administrative inconvenience to keep humans sustainably miserable. Unfortunately, Malcolm may be too sincere (and too concerned about his assigned humans) to succeed in corporate evil.

I am excited to share more about the characters, world, and progress as it goes.

In the meantime, reading, sharing, commenting, and subscribing makes an enormous difference while I continue submitting stories, querying You Are Here, developing a new book, and building my collection of resources and activities.

Please help to support me by following and subscribing to my substack at Substack.com/GinaNobile. You can also follow me at Gina_Writes_Again on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads.

Thank you for the continued support. I appreciate it more than you know.

Best,

Gina

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