num_pages: 64
description: Husband and wife Stan and Charmaine are among thousands who have signed up for a new social order because the old one is all but broken. Outside the walls of Consilience half the country is out of work gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets warlords disrupt the food supply and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more.The Consilience prison Positron is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine its a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house food and what the online brochure hails as A Meaningful Life residents agree to spend one month as inmates the next as civilians working as guards or whatevers required.Stan and Charmaine have no complaintsuntil the day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine must share with another couple while theyre back inside Positron. Its a missive of erotic longing pressed with a vivid lipstick kiss: Im starved for you! it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the houses other residents beforetheyve never met them and dont know their names; its not allowednow he cant stop thinking about them especially the notes sex-addled author a woman apparently named Jasmine so unlike his girlish wife Charmaine. He HAS to meet her but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world disorderly thoughts are a risk and breaking the rules has dire consequences.
language: English
title: I'm Starved for You
publisher: Byliner