TJ Rowley is a speculative fiction writer whose debut dystopian novel, Persistence of Vision (Dixi Books, UK), came out in 2023. You may have seen him at the When Words Collide or the North American Science Fiction Convention.
A reading of Jekyll and Hyde pauses over a potion, a repressed appetite, and a respectable man’s private rituals, questioning what civility costs when desire is locked behind manners.