A Sliver of Soap

In the damp, stone-cold corridors of Kirkwall’s ancient university, disgraced rhetoric lecturer Eamon Croft refines his true vocation: the absolute emotional demolition of women. Embittered by a public inquisition over a pro-Palestine tweet, he now hunts the vulnerable, wrapping them in counterfeit love until they leap into oblivion. His tidy record of suicides meets its end in Elena Voss, a night-shift cleaner whose pathological dread of contamination has carved her soul into a single, immaculate square. She sees the world as an ocean of filth. To Eamon, she is prey. To Elena, he is just another stain that must be scrubbed away, even if heroism means simply preserving one spotless corner in a rotting universe.