title: Anya Davidson: School Spirits
author: Anya Davidson
description: Chicago-based artist and musician Davidson is known for her underground zines and minicomics; her first full-length graphic novel continues in this vein of surreal, pulp-inspired, absurdist adventures. This book follows fanatical metal girl Oola and her bizarre supernatural connections to the things around hermost notably the intense metal musician Hrothgar. Listening to his music inspires lengthy dream visions that drift beyond the strange to the seemingly incomprehensible. Yet for all this, Davidson's graphic novel is eminently readable; it presents a story that allows the author to give full range to her imagination. Her drawings defy straightforward categorization, sometimes feeling like the artwork of golden age science fiction comics and sometimes in the tradition of punk pioneer Gary Panter or raunchmeister Johnny Ryan. Davidson uses a different style for each of the four chapters, including long wordless sequences. Unconventional as it all is, Davidson's narrative invention and visual imagination never waver. In terms of its storytelling and as a work of art, School Spirits is an inspired debut effort. (Oct.)
zlib_text: **Curse Of Desire: Complete And Uncut**
  
   **By**
  
   **Anya Merchant**
  
  Copyright © 2014 by Anya Merchant
  
  All rights reserved
  
  Kindle Edition
  
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents either
  are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental. This work is
  intended for adults only. It contains substantial sexually explicit language
  and scenes that may be considered offensive by some readers.
  
    
    
    
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
    
  
  “Oh my god, that’s her! Isn’t it?”
  
  The last bell had rung about a half hour ago, and Tim and Marco were both
  huddled around a screen in the computer lab. Like always, the computer lab
  teacher wasn’t around, and in this case, that was an incredibly good thing.
  The two 18 year old seniors had just found the fabled nude photos of Ms. Beth
  Ashby, their second period English teacher who was rumored to have a past in
  softcore modeling.
  
  “That is definitely her,” 