My Lover’s Eyes

My Lover’s Eyes is an extract from my manuscript The Isis Club, a gothic tale about a woman in search of her dead lover’s soul in the recipients of his donated organs. Fortysomething Xanthe believes she can become pregnant again with the child she lost in the accident that killed her fiancé Lawrence. In order to find these recipients and “bring forth” her lover’s soul from within, she approaches the secret Isis Club. There she meets necromancer J.D Howard, who helps her. But my protagonist Xanthe, a Greek Australian artist, is in danger – the man with her lover’s heart, Seth, is dying and believes if he kills the other recipients and hordes their organs, he can cheat death. The Isis Club explores women’s obsession with motherhood at all costs, and the pursuit of Xanthe’s dead lover in the body of others is a metaphor for the elusive quest of IVF and motherhood via donor eggs. In analysing current bioethical issues through my creative writing, such as brain death and organ donation, I am concerned with philosophical concepts of body ownership and whether the soul can be transferred to other organs after donation.

Sexuality; Genre; Bioethics

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