The Solution is Not Destruction

A woman returns to the suffocating quiet of her family home. Two strangers build an intimacy through a screen, only to shatter it with a single touch of reality. A woman watches her neighbour through a window, locked in a silent, dangerous ballet of seeing and being seen. In this visceral and unsettling debut collection, Dylan Rousseau trespasses into the hidden landscapes of female desire, where intimacy is a transaction of power, and shame is treated as sacred. The characters in these stories are not looking for comfort; they are driven by the fierce, often dangerous, need to feel. With unflinching psychological precision, Rousseau explores the blurred line between observation and voyeurism, connection and control. From a lover‘s hand in a room of shattered glass to the stark vulnerability of a body offered to a stranger‘s gaze, each story is a haunting, provocative examination of the ghosts we carry and the selves we construct in the absence of love. The Solution is Not Destruction is a masterful and unforgettable collection for those who understand that true intimacy is often a transgression.