Surrogat: A Novel: Art-Nude Photography by The Author

Surrogate is a delicious and amusing cocktail of human relations narrated by Brightly through masterfully intertwined story lines, funny dialogue and unexpected turns.

Excerpt:

"Mary was one of those women with perfectly settled lives who had a crush on the
so called intellectuals. Those artistic free birds whom she never would have
married. The same guys that are gone in sixty seconds when a woman offers them
any kind of orderly commitment.
I felt weak because of all the human weakness. Obviously Mary, who was some
sixty pounds heavier than me, also had some weak angels. There’s always
something that makes you susceptible or softens your knees. Like every woman
she was tended to fall in love easily, when she was thinking she had found the
perfect man. The monitor itself is a perfect white screen to project on it your
fantasies for man’s ideal.
The relationships existent merely within the virtual realms are dominated by
our fantasies for the person on the other side. It’s so easy to see in one’s
avatar your savior angel.
I felt close to Mary and began to like her. I also had problems with my angels,
right? My angels were turning to dragons with the advent of the unexpected.
Just when you think that you’re riding the dragon of happiness and you’re
flying around smiling… and when at the highest point you don’t want to look
down afraid you’d faint from fear of falling,
then your Angel suddenly turns to an ugly desecrator of dreams, telling you to
pay the price, and no matter how much you pay, it always comes with a bonus –
falling hard on your ass."