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Horror, October 21, 2025

Feeling betrayed and irate, a young playwright visits a clairvoyant to place a life-altering curse on her mentor. Pre-order on Amazon.

“A Play About a Curse brilliantly showcases Macon Fleischer’s gifts as both a novelist and a playwright. It's a gripping hybrid narrative about ambition, betrayal, and jealousy, encouraging us to contemplate the timeless question: What good is it to gain the whole world but lose our very soul?”

Loy A. Webb, Playwright of The Light

“With precise storytelling and a wild blending of forms, Caroline Macon Fleischer amplifies the envy, pride, wrath, and lust bubbling beneath creative collaboration. A Play About a Curse swims through both the psychological acuity of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise and the sinister chill of Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days of Discipline on its way toward deeper and stranger waters.”

Martin Seay, Author of The Mirror Thief

“In the dust of an old building, the floorboards vibrate, a curtain draws, a scrim passes over, and out slips Caroline Macon Fleischer’s genre-agnostic novel, A Play About a Curse. Insidious mentor-mentee relationships take center stage, trading a theatre of absolution for some psychotic bliss. Macon Fleischer probes the question, ‘What happens when we become the object of our own contempt?’ Heralded by the author’s hallucinogenic prose and cutting dialogue, this is a story of players cleaved from a worldly realm, flung from their obsessions, chasing the myths of their own making.”

Lucas Baisch, Playwright

“A Play About A Curse is as propulsive as it is sui generis. Macon Fleischer’s ability to crawl inside the unraveling brain of its narrator creates a journey so addictive the reader becomes an actor in the play, which is as much about envy as it is about a descent into madness.”

Eliza Bent, Writer and Performer