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Brat.
Brat 'brat noun
1 a : A child; specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child
b : In the fetish community, a submissive who engages in behavior designed to provoke or encourage a dominant’s response in order to assert individuality, annoy, test limits, garner attention, and/or provoke punishment
c : Maria Massaro, a 16-year-old escort more troubled by her own blistering anger and unappeasable lover than her profession; specifically : a jealous girl haunted by the suicide of her sweetest client and hired by a curious John contracted to help her unknot it all
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More light-hearted than you'd expect. More deviant than you'd desire.
1 a : A child; specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child
b : In the fetish community, a submissive who engages in behavior designed to provoke or encourage a dominant’s response in order to assert individuality, annoy, test limits, garner attention, and/or provoke punishment
c : Maria Massaro, a 16-year-old escort more troubled by her own blistering anger and unappeasable lover than her profession; specifically : a jealous girl haunted by the suicide of her sweetest client and hired by a curious John contracted to help her unknot it all
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More light-hearted than you'd expect. More deviant than you'd desire.
480 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 10, 2015
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Paige Johnson
53 books75 followersEditor in chief of Outcast Press, a transgressive fiction/dirty realism poetry publisher.
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December 13, 2022
I loved the characters so much, so well described.
Everything was so dark but explained a way that is lighthearted. I cannot give it 5 stars because I was not hooked on it, sadly. The slow paced moment made me take several breaks.
Everything was so dark but explained a way that is lighthearted. I cannot give it 5 stars because I was not hooked on it, sadly. The slow paced moment made me take several breaks.
December 18, 2025
Time capsule of 2014 personally, pop culturally & politically. Obvious I mostly consumed 1800s prose & Henry Miller. Odd mix but so fun to write the ironic offensive insanity. As weirdly slutty as Atlas Shrugged when I hadn’t even read that half then. Dialogue almost as unnaturally “stylistic”/shoe-gaze.
Endlessly ornate, jokey, hot headed. Fashion-focused. Total character/infidelity study. Easter eggy or worse of previous work possibly out of print. Daddy issues, daddy issues, Epsteiny issues. Dollification. Violent “romance.” Racy in both ways. Boy, I was a lot bolder as a teen.
12 years since I started it, I’m toying w/ a griefy stripped down semi-sequel. Went in cringing, coming out laughing as hard. This was for me & almost no one else. Forgot so much context even though I still fiddle w/ these characters. Feel I write almost oppositely now: short, modern, safer. Maybe I can marry the middle ground soon.
Endlessly ornate, jokey, hot headed. Fashion-focused. Total character/infidelity study. Easter eggy or worse of previous work possibly out of print. Daddy issues, daddy issues, Epsteiny issues. Dollification. Violent “romance.” Racy in both ways. Boy, I was a lot bolder as a teen.
12 years since I started it, I’m toying w/ a griefy stripped down semi-sequel. Went in cringing, coming out laughing as hard. This was for me & almost no one else. Forgot so much context even though I still fiddle w/ these characters. Feel I write almost oppositely now: short, modern, safer. Maybe I can marry the middle ground soon.
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