Alone with You in the Ether
An intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love that explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you’re not broken.
1. ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER by Olivie Blake
SYNOPSIS
Chicago, sometime―
Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.
For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.
To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.
For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability―until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Olivie Blake is a best-selling author of fantasy and dark academia novels.
She is a lover and writer of stories, many of which involve the fantastic, the paranormal, or the supernatural, but not always. More often, her works revolve around what it means to be human (or not), and the endlessly interesting complexities of life and love.
Olivie lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is generally tolerated by her rescue pit bull.
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