Copyright © 2004 William Bowles. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is expressly forbidden except for personal printouts for offline reading.
About the novel
This is my first venture into online publishing of my fiction writing and is the second novel I have completed (I'm still debating whether or not to make the first one, “Raphaela” available). XX will be published each Monday in weekly installments. Feedback is welcome (especially from publishers and/or agents).
A middle-aged man goes to his doctor complaining that not only is he getting younger but that he’s turning into a woman. Eventually he does and survives the transformation only to discover that he is also pregnant. Even more alarming is that it turns out that he is the first of many men to undergo the change and all who survive are, like him, pregnant and eventually all give birth but only to girls.
Panic and pogroms ensue as the world of men is faced with the real possibility of their eventual extinction and their attempts to stem the tide.
XX follows the life of the first man to undergo the change and the (virgin) birth of her daughter, their struggle to survive in a world irrevocably changed and implacably opposed to their survival.