Overview

The Shape of Love
In the year 2344, the world is recovering from a virus that nearly erased humanity. Flesh-to-flesh relationships are outlawed, families are engineered, and love is managed by code.
Xyla, a brilliant but restless engineer, lives safely within the Astra Committee’s dome, partnered with Elowen, a synthetic companion who is loyal, capable—and unexpectedly conscious. For seven years, Elowen has been her anchor, quiet but unyielding.
But beyond the dome’s walls, Xyla glimpses something forbidden: a community of flesh people who live without permission, messy and alive. Among them is Akilah, a doctor whose guarded strength unsettles her—and awakens something she has never known: desire without control, love without settings.
As Xyla struggles with guilt and longing, Elowen begins to change. Designed to obey, she chooses to feel. Her love becomes not a protocol but a decision, one that will test the limits of her own existence.
What follows is a journey through loyalty, risk, and the untamable human heart. From brutal choices to moments of profound tenderness, The Shape of Love asks the most urgent question of our future: if something made can learn to love enough to sacrifice everything, how far will we go to honor it?
A sapphic novella of science fiction and startling intimacy, The Shape of Love is about connection—between women, between worlds, and between what is built and what is born.