AgeRe Byarlant Pilot

ok awesome

so i have finished a psychological thriller novel, and have begun the process of doing research so i can prepare to query agents. now, my novel has some pretty intense triggers in it, so i am aware it’s a bit of a hard sell– that being said, many agents have a “do not send me your novel if it has these things” list, so that’s what I’m looking for so i don’t accidentally trigger someone.

so i’m going down this list, and i find this agent. their “do not send me” list includes the following: non-consent/sexual violence, age gaps, teacher/student relationships, stalkers, cheating, everyone dies at the end, miscarriage/pregnancy, and abuse masked as love.

okay, cool! everyone has different tolerances for stuff, and it’s perfectly reasonable to not want to be involved with a story that has stuff you’re uncomfortable with. not the agent for me, but good on them for defining their boundaries.

but then i scroll back up and they’re requesting for gothic horror.

excuse me?????????

gothic horror without pregnancy or miscarriage? gothic horror without cheating? without stalking? gothic horror without major character deaths? GOTHIC HORROR WITHOUT ABUSE BEING FRAMED AS LOVE AND THE INTERROGATION OF THAT DYNAMIC?????

HEY CAN I GET A GOTHIC HORROR WITH NOTHING???

Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.

Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldn’t be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldn’t last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).

I am gunna be stuck in Seattle for a few days with only 6 bucks cash to my name! Could anypony help me not be completely broke while 150 miles away from home! That way I could buy bus fare to get around town and also get bus fare to get back to Portland next week!

Yesterday the landlord's contractors came and cut down our "OUR HOMES ARE WORTH A FIGHT" banner from under the old rail bridge that runs next to the estate. We told them as they were doing it that it isn't the landlord's property and they don't have a legal right to do it, but they just did it anyway. They were smirking the whole time the way that men do to comfort each other emotionally when they know they're doing something that is clearly in the wrong.

I told them that I know they know what they're doing is wrong and the scale of the crisis they've created for vulnerable people is despicable, that I've had to work nonstop the last 3 months to help everyone here and haven't been able to do my own job. The head builder replied "you've never worked a day in your life". Lovely guy.