On the Subject of Control

“We find that the relationship between conscious thought and physical action is that of correlation, not causation. The body needs no consciousness to function. Moreover, consciousness is found to have no tangible purpose. Through psychiatric innovation, it may be discarded entirely.”

- Bodily Autonomy and Other Fallacies (5th ed.)

Featured in The Dark Corner: this fast-paced thriller with a sapphic antihero starts in a psychiatric hospital and ends in hell. After undergoing treatments for her violent tendencies, not experimental but long-since approved, Nora will learn that there are many worse things than death.

Content warning: violence, needles, death, SA, and an irredeemable protagonist.