Query

City planner by day, tired climate activist by day off, aspiring writer Zilla Novikov's query letters quickly devolve into a darkly funny exploration of her own psyche. As the rejections pile up, her novel blurbs and biographies grow increasingly unhinged, while Zilla discovers that the road to bestseller-dom is paved with neoliberal hellscapes.

Before long, "Novikov" is ironic, passive-aggressive, absurd, obscene. She is trolling agents. She is thirst-trapping agents. She is querying irrelevant agents with malice aforethought. She is learning to love the hopelessness.

Query is like chicken soup for your inferiority complex.