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Linda, a content moderator earning $20 an hour, lives a solitary life, flagging inappropriate comments for a tech giant. Her only escape is a monthly trip to San Francisco International Airport for secret meetings, where she indulges her unique attraction to planes. Their sleek designs and powerful engines evoke feelings no human can match. Linda fantasizes about 'marrying' a plane by dying in a crash, believing this would unite her with her soulmate aircraft forever. When her co-worker Karina invites her to join a vision board group to manifest desires, Linda eagerly participates, hoping to accelerate her romantic fate. However, the vision boards start to manifest items in unexpected and literal ways, causing her carefully maintained life to spiral out of control. Linda faces a dilemma: cling to her normal life or leap toward her wildest dreams. Readers describe this book as audacious, strange, and wildly enjoyable, praising its originality and quirky characters. Many express their excitement, calling it one of the most anticipated reads of 2025, with a blend of humor and absurdity that captivates and entertains.

"Full of indelible characters and darkly comic twists, the stories in Kate Folk's debut collection are perfectly pitched for the madness of our modern moment. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with. A woman navigates finding a partner while beautiful humanoid robots called "blots" have infiltrated the dating apps of San Francisco, dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. And in a companion piece, a woman and a blot find connection in an unexpected yet tender love story. As this debut collection explores what it means to face the void, human beings try to find their way in bizarre and dystopic settings, whether their own body, their relationships, their home, or the world at large. Imaginative, genre-bending, and oddly prescient, Out There depicts a landscape that is eminently of-the-moment, terrifying but ultimately hopeful"-- Provided by publisher