Daelus Thresh was a delegate.
To aid in the completion of his delegated duties, he was granted the ability to project an entourage into being. An entourage was a physical manifestation of will, often appearing in the form of a human. An entourage existed to act in direct accordance with its delegates' intentions. They could be servants, messengers, scouts, bodyguards, sock-puppets, or assassins.
Instead, Daelus created Sheam.
Then, everything changed.
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A Quixotic Dystopian Allegorical Transgender Thriller
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Cover art by Marie Najean. Proofreading, creative input, and encouragement by Ela Bambust & Ell.
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Content Warnings (which includes light spoilers): profanity, alcohol consumption, misogyny, transphobia, home invasion, non-graphic descriptions of violence and murder, light consensual sexual content, threats of sexual violence, first-person descriptions of panic attacks, dysphoria, dissociation, and desire to self harm.
- Afterword & Acknowledgements Oct 29, 2025
- 90 — The CircleOct 29, 2025
- 89 — All that’s WithinOct 27, 2025
- 88 — BonfiresOct 24, 2025
- 87 — End of EternityOct 22, 2025
- 86 — FamilyOct 20, 2025
- 85 — Noise to SignalOct 17, 2025
- 84 — Dearest FriendOct 15, 2025
- third spaceOct 13, 2025
- Final IntermissionOct 13, 2025
- 83 — WhispersOct 10, 2025
- 82 — All of a KindOct 8, 2025
- 81 — Sanguine DawnOct 6, 2025
- 80 — Scion of Fear Oct 3, 2025
- 79 — PatternsOct 1, 2025
- Content Warning
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I don't think I've ever read a story and felt elements of it connect with my personal experiences on such a deep level before this. I love this world, I love the characters, I love the abilities. I am looking forward to more in this series or from this author. I enjoyed my time with it so much!I've never read a book that wasn't like, physically published before! So sure, take my opinion with a grain of salt, but also know that this book is good enough to have convinced me to do that! (Read on my ebook reader during bus rides and quiet nights)
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SHEAM by Dana Nightingale is now complete and I IMPLORE you to read it.
It is the story of a 'man' cast into a lonely society of privilege and lies who becomes her truest self and, together with her friends and lovers, works to liberate everyone. So people are free to find out who they can be.
It is a story of self-actualisation, of love, of what it means to create and why we do it. Of how far we will go to liberate each other from a conservative society's constraints. Of knives and duplicates and colossal unknowable machine-entities. Of architecture and coffee and walking through museums.
It's the kind of story we all need in our lives. That reminds us of what we're struggling for. What waits for us on the other side, and in the quiet safe moments we claw out for ourselves in the dark times of today.
Please read Sheam. You'll feel better for it.
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