Oli Johns

Castle Damijana Oli Johns

1357: Pedro of Portugal dug up his dead mistress, made her queen, and forced loyal subjects to kiss her hand.




Billy makes a zine that no one reads, and puts it round London. At night he searches for 7 of 9 sex tapes and tries to understand fourth-wave feminist theory. Life stays like this until he gets an e-mail from 'D' in Ljubljana, asking him to come to stay. He thinks she's a nut until she sends him eight grand in spending money. Off he goes, to Ljubljana, to Metelkova, to the outskirts of the city, to a castle on a snowy hill, to Damijana and her typewriter. One of them is a sociopath, can you guess which?




Plot-wise, it's similar to the Star Trek DS9 episode where Jake Sisko gets yellow energy sucked out of his head by Meg Foster while writing his masterpiece, but this one's set in Slovenia and is better.