Lost Violet Press is the indie publishing project of Australian writer Vixen Phillips. Works include a mix of such genres as dark m/m romance, speculative fiction, steampunk & cyberpunk, and lyrical trance. These stories are set in worlds where dreams & nightmares intertwine with reality. The focus is on characters who make intimate connections to one another, spiral along realms of madness and revelation, and, in moments of beautiful self-destruction, strive to break free of whatever cages contain them.
Trapdoor
A dark m/m love story
by Vixen Phillips
e-book edition
A psychological journey through darkness and light, into the heart and soul of obsessive love.
“In a dream, we can do anything we want to… Anything at all.”
Raven and Pegasus each have their own reasons for denying their feelings for one another, but once they are all they have left in the entire world, how long can this charade really hold out? What price faith, and freedom, and the most beautiful form of self-destruction?
Sometimes, if you wish hard enough, dreams can come true, even if you should wake to find them gone like shadows in the morning…
This story is rated MA, for Mature Audiences.
It contains homoerotic content, adult themes, coarse language,
violence, and self-harm, suicide & drug references.
This e-book edition contains the complete text of the original version of Trapdoor, with a new cover that features a beautiful illustration by Laura Acevedo. The novel was first printed in 2003 and published under the pen name ‘September Dawn’.