Amor Cringe - Fiction by K Allado-McDowell

Amor Cringe - Fiction by K Allado-McDowellWith drawings by Lydia Maria Pfeffer Amor Cringe explores the dually base and beautiful aspects of self obsessed media culture. In a perennial bohemian style, an unnamed, ungendered protagonist travels from coast to coast and affair to affair, stumbling upon various moments of failure, absurd insight, and flashes of transcendence. Half traditionally written and half AI generated, Amor Cringe is a "deepfake autofiction" novelette about a TikTok

A conceptual take-over is deployed

and criminality in the twenty-first century

Emptiness is form

anti-work feeling

and as dynamic

replacing the dead author with a living artist

' What would it mean to harness the power of our perceptual modes beyond reason or knowing

which I couldn't put down

Is there sex without work

the unsayable that can be lost when we ask language to convey the infinite interiority of the black woman—Black Venus Fly Trap rescues it

and agency

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