Monday, November 11, 2024

He. by Gregory Pakis



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A sexually open-minded couple, Lester and Val, have recently moved into a stylish yet eerie apartment building.

Val's curiosity is piqued when she starts to receive unusual messages and requests from an anonymous messenger.

Lester is also cautiously intrigued, as Val starts to fulfill the requests.

A suspected sex club soon becomes media headlines when a former member disappears, and the club is reported to have vacated its last premises.

As the messages persist, Lester and Val start to question whether the anonymous messenger is connected to the clandestine club mentioned in the media, and if there is any link between him or the club and the odd newcomers in the apartment next door.


Read an Excerpt

She walked over to the kitchen and stared out the windows. Everything was still. An uneasy feeling came over her. She looked back at Lester’s door.

was he acting a bit strange lately

he did seem distracted

that night he seemed more excited than usual

wasn’t that a dream

She remembered the things he had said and she felt excited about the possibilities. There was another party in a few weeks. They were also possibly going to meet with a couple Lester had met online. But she felt dread about mixing her and Lester’s energy with others. She wasn’t sure she needed to. She still found Lester compelling; his brooding mysterious presence, his body. He took care of himself. And she wasn’t sure there were many men that could be with her as intensely.

Her phone beeped. She looked down at it on the kitchen table. It wasn’t often she received messages. She preferred it that way. She read the message.

‘the stencil’

It wasn’t from a contact. That was odd.

what stencil

She’d received her share of messages over the years. Notes pressed in her hand. Under her windscreen wipers. Written on napkins in bars or on the back of business cards. But it was usually just a phone number and a name. She then realised which stencil the message was referring to.

did something just click in or out of place

About the Author:
Gregory Pakis is an Australian author, film-maker, actor and wacky vlogger.

He has written the short story, The Lonely Australian of the Asian Night; the soon to be released horror-suspense novellas, The Regressor and He., and Memoir of a Suburban Hoe-Bo, which is partly an account of when he lived out of a van for ten years in Melbourne.

Gregory Pakis is also the writer / director of the feature films, The Garth Method (2005) and The Joe Manifesto (2013), which have won national and international awards and been distributed through Accent Entertainment, Label, Vanguard Cinema.

Gregory's more informal video projects are the feature documentaries, Garth Goes Hitch-Hiking (2007) and Garth Lives in a Van (2011) which have screened at film festivals in Australia.

More recently, he has created the comedy series, suBURPieS and his Wacky Vlog which can found on his socials.

Gregory has been featured in articles in newspapers, The Age, The Herald Sun, Beat Magazine, Inpress, FILMINK, and the Neos Kosmos. He has been interviewed on radio by the ABC, 3RRR, SYN FM, 3CR.

BOOK TRAILER: https://youtu.be/Kmzbq39uREY
AUTHOR CHAT TO CAMERA VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gb76iJdAUak
WEB PAGE: https://www.gpak.org/books/he
WEB PAGE FOR FILMS: https://guerillafilmnite.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/gregorypakis/
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FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/gpakis
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YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Films_Books._Vlogs

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5 comments:

  1. Thank you for the post here. Hopefully readers can view the Book Trailer and Author To Camera video i made, to give a feel for the story.

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  2. This looks like a novel I will thoroughly enjoy. Thanks for sharing.

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