Turning Violet: A Novella

Turning Violet is a psychologically intimate novella about obsession, identity, and the thin membrane between fantasy and survival.Lily has learned how to live with pressure. Pressure in her body. Pressure in her thoughts. Pressure that traces back to a childhood moment she never outgrew — a scene from a movie, a girl turning blue, a loss of control that lodged itself somewhere permanent. Over time, that image became a language. A ritual. A voice.When Lily’s carefully contained life begins to fracture — through sex that almost works, a breakup that finally lands, and a movie theater encounter that cracks something open — she is forced to confront the truth she’s spent years avoiding: the fantasy isn’t just something she wants. It’s something that lives inside her.Structured through chapters, zines, interludes, and a surreal factory sequence, Turning Violet blends erotic obsession, dissociation, queer intimacy, and trauma processing into a single confessional arc. The story moves between Lily and Violet — between control and surrender — asking what it means to be witnessed without being consumed.This is not a redemption story.It is not a cautionary tale.Turning Violet is about learning how to stay.For readers drawn to psychologically driven fiction, experimental structure, and stories that sit at the edge of desire and discomfort. Read more