How You Lose the Time War meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this fast-paced queer horror novel in which an obsessive woman stumbles upon a second-chance romance with her flighty paramour, but it quickly deteriorates into a dark spiral of destruction.

Johnny spots her ex, Alice, at the local cafe with a vague sense that she's been there before. Though she's still angry about their breakup and Alice's subsequent ghosting, Johnny can't resist the draw of a second shot at their relationship and accepts Alice's invitation back to her apartment. Once there, promises are exchanged. There's talk of wonder and change and dreams made real. But after spending the night together, they face a morning in which Alice is still Alice, Johnny is still Johnny, and the dog has doubled in size.

Over the course of a week, increasingly bizarre changes in the world around them force Johnny to consider whether the pair can change just as easily, if they can change at all. Or if both her relationship and the bounds of reality are destined to implode. The narrative of I Can Fix Her operates on nightmare logic, putting forth an irresistible tale in which the world, the narrator, and time itself are not to be trusted.

About the Author
Rae Wilde (she/her) is a queer woman and author of dark fiction who has also published under the name Rae Knowles. Her work includes The Stradivarius, Merciless Waters, and I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men. Rae is the author of numerous shorter works, published in magazines and anthologies such as Dark Matter Ink, Nightmare, and Ghoulish Tales. Rae is represented by Carleen Geisler at Arthouse Literary.

Reviews

"Nightmarish and powerfully unnerving, Rae Wilde's I Can Fix Her is a labyrinthine and profoundly complex portrait of queer relationships, obsession, routine, and destruction. Wilde's prose is masterfully controlled even when so much of this devastating story feels like a kind of demented stream of consciousness written at the end of the world. One of the most disorienting and upsetting works of queer fiction I've encountered this year." -Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

"In this ferocious tale, strata of bitterness, jealousy, and dashed expectations form an unstable foundation for Johnny, who desperately seeks a reconnection with her aloof, enigmatic ex. Wilde's incandescent prose blazes, but don't let the beautiful, poetic imagery of I Can Fix Her fool you-this story digs into the psychological bedrock of why we hope that the people we love will change to be exactly what we need and crave, even when deep down we know the truth." -Lindz McLeod, author of Sunbathers and The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet

"I Can Fix Her is one of the saddest yet most beautiful fucking things I've ever read. Wilde demonstrates a mastery of experimental narrative structures and my god... the prose! Phenomenal." -Paula D. Ashe, author of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

"I Can Fix Her seamlessly blends the surreal and the horrific to capture a relationship so awful it breaks time. Compulsively readable and vivid as fuck, Rae Wilde's prose is as fierce as it is hot, hot, HOT. Do not miss this toxic bonbon of a novella!" -Wendy N. Wagner, author of Girl in the Creek and The Deer King

"A relentless, obsessive spiral through time, I Can Fix Her thrusts you into a cosmic fever dream of queer desire and destruction. With prose as haunting as it is visceral, Wilde unravels the terrifying lengths one will go to preserve love on the brink of collapse. Dark, gripping, and unforgettable, this book refuses to let you go-even as it pulls you into its unrelenting depths." -Mallory Pearson, author of Voice Like a Hyacinth and We Ate the Dark

"I Can Fix Her is a story about how sometimes the possibility of better appears out of despair, about how things will be better next time-because they have to be. It's our best qualities pushing against our worst, how ultimately it's hope and optimism that make us hurt ourselves and others. This book admits things we're not supposed to and reveals things we'd rather not be true. Loved it!" -Charlene Elsby, author of Violent Faculties

"I Can Fix Her delivers unto us the ultimate toxic relationship-a lovestruck heart-rending emotional car crash so unhealthy it warps reality into a surreal hell. This is intimate, potent stuff-a small horror painted on a massive, mad canvas." -Chuck Wendig, author of Black River Orchard and The Staircase in the Woods

Book Information
ISBN 9781960988515
Author Rae Wilde
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint Clash Books
Publisher Clash Books