One lonely young man.
One strange corner of the manosphere.
One address in the middle of the forest.
One first date of his life.
A note from the editor: “When I got this novella manuscript from Jonathan Maas, with the first tile of Gooner: The Web – my first question was: ‘What is gooning?’ And then I looked it up and – gooning is strange all right. Not the Gooner fans of Arsenal football, but gooners, those who participate in collective watching of pornographic materials on multiple monitors.
But this strange corner of the manosphere has a bit of charm – they are nice to each other at least, and this tale was more than just the ‘gooner’ nickname of Virgil, the lonely young man found on the cover.
This is a tale of a first date that threatens to be a last date, a first experience of love that might end our character’s world before changing our own.
Regardless, read this experimental SciFi Horror – you might read it in one sitting like I did.”
– J. Shaw, Cynical Optimist Press
For fans of: Thomas Ligotti, Ed Yong, Scott Galloway, Noah Feldman, critiques of the manosphere, Louis Theroux, Search Engine, PJ Vogt and True Detective.
Genres: Experimental fiction, SciFi, science fiction, horror, body horror, first date fiction, animal intelligence, mystery, thriller
Version 2.0 – Updated with some small formatting issues and resolution of typos.
