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    Orgy: A Short Story About Desire
    Orgy: A Short Story About Desire
    Orgy: A Short Story About Desire
    Audiobook56 minutes

    Orgy: A Short Story About Desire

    Written by Kaitlyn Greenidge

    Narrated by Elaine Welteroth

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    “A story so funny and alive with the moment. Orgy is rich with the absurdity of the world and ripe with the reality of our collective longing. Kaitlyn Greenidge has once again written something you won’t forget. Brilliant and sexy and aware and exactly what you need.” — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of FRIDAY BLACK

    “If sex is your chosen way for you to know yourself and others, what happens when a pandemic comes—and you discover it is as essential to your survival as a vaccine? Maybe more so? Sharp, affectionate, bawdy fun, a story as wise as a new best friend found on a spring night at an orgy. And Kaitlyn Greenidge continues to expand her literary terrain with this playful, masterful new work.” — Alexander Chee, author of HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL 

    Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of one of The New York Times’ most anticipated books of 2021, Libertie, and We Love You, Charlie Freeman, has been hailed as a “literary force to be reckoned with” (Buzzfeed). In her forthcoming Scribd Original, Orgy, she draws on the audacity that so often defines her work, imagining a day in the life of a young woman starved for connection and adventure in a city shut down by the COVID pandemic.

    Nessa knows she’s a hot mess. She’s strong and impulsive and won’t apologize for it. She moved to Brooklyn from Baltimore to study nursing—or that was the plan. Instead she used the money her mom’s church group raised for her schooling to rent her first place in Brooklyn. Twenty years later and she has zero regrets: She loves her apartment even if the ceiling sags and the heat won’t shut off, even if her chronically uptight cousin Laurie lives with her now, and even if being stuck in it during the pandemic is slowly robbing Nessa of what makes her feel most like her: desire, skin on skin, finding the secret parts of a lover’s body.

    When she’s invited to a party downtown, she knows she shouldn’t go but can’t resist. The invite’s subject line billed it as an “orgy,” thrown by some furries she knows. She outfits herself accordingly—pig nose and tail, black leotard, and fetchingly torn stockings—and, despite the disapproval of her cousin and the white boy who’s been camping in her cousin’s bed, she puts on her protective mask and walks out into a city transformed. It may be a lovely summer night, but she can’t help but see all that she and those around her have been missing during quarantine. At the party, she keeps confronting vestiges of her younger self, someone people noticed and who noticed others in reply: men, women, Black and white, gay and straight, nonbinaries, you name it—Nessa could see their beauty and reached to touch it. Now she feels like a ghost.

    Who and what she encounters next will make her confront how far she’s willing to go to feel like herself again, to encounter the desire that made the city feel real—and sometimes tantalizingly surreal—for her, and seize that rare and “pure glory of having a body and being alive.” Orgy is a provocative, unforgettable, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny take on lust and longing in the time of corona, from one of the most exciting writers working today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Originals
    Release dateJul 23, 2021
    ISBN9781094419404
    Author

    Kaitlyn Greenidge

    KAITLYN GREENIDGE’s debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Greenidge is a contributing writer for the New York Times, and her work has also appeared in Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Kaitlyn Greenidge lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 3/5
      Poor pandemic references. I realize fiction is fiction but dislike when an author changes history. Covid tests were not widely available in June 2020. The side of the story came much more from a late Heggemeier point of you than an early one. There’s much more widespread panic and societal angst story misses the obsessive nature of the early pandemic, social thought process.
    • 5/5
      Really loved this! Brilliant, funny disruptive. Don’t miss this story.
    • 4/5
      Much more interesting than I thought it would be. A story of loneliness. Also a story of disappointment and hope.
    • 4/5
      My only real complaint is that she didn't give us a novel with this character, instead of a short story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Not very interesting for someone my age. I am in my 50s. This is for young people. However, I really enjoyed Fast Girl, which is about a former Olympic runner that became a high priced escort to fulfill her anxiety desires.
    • 3/5
      For being less than an hour, it was a decent story. A woman comes to terms with herself and the things she desires. She feels no shame of them. Wish I could be that free minded.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I thought the narration was great, right from the start. She had a strong understanding of the story, good inflection, very well told.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I t was ok. I would not recommend it to anyone

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Brilliant story telling. Full of inner resonance and full of smiles. A twofer that's well worth the read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very beautiful article. Thanks for the author. Writing language and spelling are good. I like this topic.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      This author is not for me




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    • 1/5
      Horrible reader
      Difficult to understand
      Turned it off after only 3 minutes.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is the pandemic story I didn't know I needed! Such a thoughtful, sweet story. I'll look forward to re-reading it every few years to remember what it felt like to be alive and present in 2021.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Sorry Robert, that you could only make it three minutes. That’s a bummer. I personally think you really could have benefited from the story.

      I thought the narrator, that’s what they’re called, did a wonderful job handling ?? all of those hard to come ? by words in narrative fiction these days.

      Thanks to Scribd, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Elaine Welteroth for providing me at least a half hour of pleasure this Friday evening!
      Kassidi
      @undertheradarbooks_

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Books bad isn't correct titles pages links copyright check open public original books libraries above my.
    • 5/5
      Good stuff I loved it really interesting and so on ?????♻️??️???️??? ?♻️
    • 5/5
      Awesome book, left me wanting more . . .
      Made me smile, laugh and tear up . Great read
    • 1/5
      There were about 6 different story lines started, none of them were completed. I know this is a short story & a lot of times it’s a precursor to a novel, but this didn’t make me want to read/listen to any further writing on any of the characters. There were 2 “relationships” between side characters, & in both of them, the people didn’t even like their significant other.
      Oh...& FYI, there’s no orgy.
      I’m down for supporting new/Indy authors & Scribd exclusive stuff, but I feel like an hour of my time was just wasted.

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful writing and emotion. Fun and touching post breakup read.

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    • 2/5
      Pretty boring story line, but the author does a great job of using descriptive language.
    • 1/5
      So boring. Nothing juicy or enticing at all…I kept waiting for it to get good and just when I thought it was getting somewhere, it ended.

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