Wendy and the Evil School of Evil

Wendy S. Godwin-Frags Mibeit Gazab has two problems.The first is that her school is harvesting students' souls as collateral for unpaid tuition fees, which is technically legal, aggressively documented, and somehow tax-exempt.The second is her book.Shells of Desire, Volume 8 is a Qliphothic narrative familiar that automatically translates any unbearable situation into survivable genre fiction. Specifically: erotic melodrama. Wendy did not ask for this. She has filed seventeen formal complaints. The book has not acknowledged a single one.So when the school's reality-enforcement system flags Wendy as an unclassifiable administrative anomaly - something that has never happened in the institution's four-hundred-year history of processing, commodifying, and occasionally accidentally destroying its students - the book responds the only way it knows how.It makes it romantic.Wendy refuses.The book tries harder.