Mythos of the Hollowed Souls takes place a world of inverted gender roles where men endure the same violence, oppression, and subjugation that women and queer folks have faced throughout history in our reality. This is not accidental—it is deliberate, intentional, and necessary.

In this world, male characters experience:

• Genital mutilation that renders them incapable of experiencing sexual pleasure—a grim reality that many women in our world have suffered and continue to suffer today.
• Rape—an atrocity that, depending on the study, has affected anywhere between 10-60% of women globally.
• Infanticide and murder, as male children are considered less valuable and men who assert autonomy risk their lives—paralleling the ongoing reality where female infants are still discarded in some regions, and where pregnant women are murdered at staggering rates, almost always by intimate partners. There is also rising evidence that in some rural areas of the world, mothers are undertaking the heartbreaking action of killing their newborn daughters so they won’t suffer the same atrocities their mother has.
• Sexual and literal torture, mirroring real-life atrocities like the horrific case of Junko Furuta, a Japanese teenager kidnapped, tortured, and murdered over 44 days by multiple boys—one of countless stories where perpetrators go unpunished or receive minimal consequences.
• Forced subservience in the name of the The Awakener, otherwise known as the Goddess Nammu, reflecting a mirror to our own reality, where males being the unquestionable heads of households since the emergence of patriarchal religious systems around 4,000 years ago.
• Being talked over, dismissed, and denied respect, regardless of their intelligence, kindness, or accomplishments—an everyday reality for women across the world.

This world holds up a mirror, forcing a confrontation with the lived experiences of women and non-men. The violence in Mythos of the Hollowed Souls is a calculated reversal, revealing how these brutal realities have been normalized when experienced by women, but are suddenly deemed unacceptable when applied to men (usually, by men themselves).

Graphic torture and rape scenes exist in countless works of fiction, yet rarely spark outrage unless the victims are male. This reaction underscores the very premise of my writing—society is conditioned to accept female suffering as the status quo while finding male suffering intolerable. If that discomfort arises, then my work has done its job.

Mythos of the Hollowed Souls imagines an alternate reality—one in which patriarchal systems failed to take root, and men now bear the consequences of their attempt to dominate and subjugate women.

If you don’t like what happens to fictional male characters in MOTHS, then you should truly hate what happens to women and queer folks in our reality.

Just my two cents 😉

Go read my books and see if they’re as bad as you’re imagining—I dare ya.