Excerpt from Endling by Maria Reva, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

The greatest challenge for Yeva during her dates with the bachelors: her phone. The constant pinging, the alarms, drove the interpreters crazy and drew side-eyes from the administrators during socials, but Yeva told herself that the interruptions made her look desirable to the men. Like she had a rich social life, countless friends pulling her in all directions, suitors knocking. She wanted to believe this herself. Whenever she had to run out in the middle of a date to adjust humidity levels in the lab or open another air vent, she'd invent an excuse. A work call from some normal job a normal person would have. A cousin in need of relationship advice. A baby-her own! (This last being the nuclear option: a way to end not only that evening's date but the possibility of future ones.) Never would the bachelors suspect what she was leaving them for: the bottomless needs of 276 snails.

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