During
the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a
locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.
Orpheus
manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out across the city. She
takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in
love with, who also broke her heart. The city is largely closed and on
lockdown, devoid of touch, connection, and community. But Orpheus hears
of a mysterious underground bar Le Monocle, fashioned after the lesbian
club of the same name in 1930s Paris.
Will Orpheus be
able to find it? Will she ever be allowed to love
again? Panpocalypse—first published as an online serial in spring of
2020—follows a lonely, disabled, poly hero in this novel about disease,
decay, love, and revolution.
