Category: Adults, General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Queer
Written by Brittany Newell
Read by Christine Lakin
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
A young womanâs madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newellâs savage, tender Soft Core.
Ruth is lost. Sheâs living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her masterâs degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes Baby Blue, seductress of crypto bros, outcasts, and old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful women, fast cash, ungodly hours, and strangersâ secrets, Babyâs grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle itâuntil one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace.
Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still lovesâthrough the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive bars and bus depots; at the BDSM dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the way, she meets Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody; and Emeline, the beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone . . .
A brutally funny, propulsive story of power, fantasy, love, and loss, Brittany Newellâs Soft Core is an ode to the heartbroken and unhinged, to those whose appetites lead them astray. It is a hallucinogenic romp about a girl coming undone, whose longing for friendship, romance, and revenge will take her over the edge and back again.
Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 02-04-25
A young womanâs madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newellâs savage, tender Soft Core.
Ruth is lost. Sheâs living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her masterâs degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes Baby Blue, seductress of crypto bros, outcasts, and old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful women, fast cash, ungodly hours, and strangersâ secrets, Babyâs grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle itâuntil one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace.
Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still lovesâthrough the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive bars and bus depots; at the BDSM dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the way, she meets Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody; and Emeline, the beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone . . .
A brutally funny, propulsive story of power, fantasy, love, and loss, Brittany Newellâs Soft Core is an ode to the heartbroken and unhinged, to those whose appetites lead them astray. It is a hallucinogenic romp about a girl coming undone, whose longing for friendship, romance, and revenge will take her over the edge and back again.
Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 02-04-25