Joyce Dade

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AJ DADE, was born near the sea in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The author, is a graphic designer, and photography artist who studied the Fine Arts and Literature at the City University of New York.

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One Night With Lovely Scherazade, 3: The Zoz! Collection of Anti-Love Stories (The Jaded Flower Series) Nov 12, 2017

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The anti-hero of One Night with Lovely Scherazade,3 is a lovely young art student whose existential asexual spasms crop up in this, the third in a series of five short stories. Introverted, moody, and at the start of the story already gone just a little bit crazy. She is also somewhat less than heroic after she landscapes a date for sex, with an Egyptian student she meets in her English Literature class—clearly, it makes an un-cut difference that she knew absolutely nothing him. Set in the early 1980s somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, at a time when everything was “groovy,” the main character lives the life of a somewhat beguiling, but otherwise bewildered student of art. Young, impressionable, perceptive and borderline neurotic, this girl is nobody’s “swinger.” Although, she is often taken to be a sophisticate—her looks are deceiving. Come along for the ride, as Scherazade reflects and digresses, opines then whines, and ultimately rages about her life experiences and the associated growing pains.

On exotic fragrance, funny and sometimes not so funny baroque writing, schmaltz; neurotic obsessions; asides and digressions make up the territory in this story. Old school ideas on male best behavior practices, chivalry, the lack of it, and other reflections take place within the lineage of the story which contains comedic qualities, with a strong undertow of lost innocence. Scherazade considers her opportunities, reflects on the temptations that exist in her world. Now, as Scherazade’s date is about to rewind, she relives her night with Abdul. Readers are welcome to tag along as she laments the very summer night it all happened. The curtain is about to rise on her night of lost love, so please do join the audience.

NOTICE OF TITLE CHANGES: Please note the final two stories in this series now have new titles! "Her Doll Face, 4" and "Scorpio Rising, 5" are the new titles of the stories. Thank you for your consideration, and for your purchase of a download.

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Scorpio Rising, 5 (The Zoz! Collection of Anti-Love Stories in the Jaded Flower Series) Nov 12, 2017

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SCHERAZADE, astrologically minded and mixed up by Western philosophy makes another appearance as an undergraduate in Scorpio Rising, the fifth story in the Jaded Flower Series. The frazzled art student is starting a new, hectic, and intense semester of collegiate life, and not without psychological problems. Bordering on a neurotic malaise, she is edged up and feels oppressed by academic as well as social difficulties.

The story highlights a coming of age scenario for the art student who finds that she has been injured by false philosophical concepts she became exposed to. Claiming her weariness and bad spirits were caused by the European Existential philosopher, Simon de Boudoir. De Boudoir’ who authored, “The Second and Inferior Sex,” and after reading it, Scherazade has not been the same ever since. “An anti-feminist betrayer of the feminine gender if there ever was one,” Scherazade gives the misogynist philosopher the business, in a rant that points to the issues she has with de Boudoir about her ideas on the inferiority of the female gender.

Still struggling to solve the worsening problem she has with written compositions, Scherazade’s new English Comp teacher PROFESSOR SCORPIUS, is just the ticket to ride Scherazade needs. The suave professor has even taken a highly personal liking to his C-average English Composition student. As the semester advances, so does her deeply mysterious professor whose behavior and requests trigger a recent traumatic experience the student had before starting college.

Scherazade continues to be obsessed by her longstanding problem with writing compositions, meanwhile, she does “astrological research” on her new professor. It turns out, Professor Scorpius—true to his astrological namesake—is a Scorpio man under Scherazade's microscope, who will teach lovely Scherazade a thing or two about charisma, and English compositions to her absolute satisfaction. Professor Scorpius is inscrutable, and the bookish art and astrology student believes the nature of the mysterious Scorpion experience as it is hyped up to be: intense and scintillating.

When the suave Professor Scorpius, closes the door to the outside world. and engages with Scherazade behind closed doors, the student is in for the Scorpio treatment. Whatever pops up after that is nobody’s business. Or is it?

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Her Doll Face, 4 (The Jaded Flower Series of Stories) Nov 12, 2017

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COLLEGE STUDENTS, enjoy your youthful time of life, but protect yourselves. The world can be a terrible place all too unexpectedly, and you can lose everything there is to be lost, that seems to be the message Scherazade conveys in this fourth installment, in the Zoz! Jaded Flower Collection of stories which opens with the main character, art student, Scherazade is about to begin her second attempt at English Composition. She has a new, friendly adjunct, who is not helping her improve her writing abilities, and the stress is bringing on a crisis of decision. The stressed-out student will not take a pass-fail, or a C for the English Composition course she needs to graduate. At the same time, she is discovering some qualities about herself that bring others into her confidence, and in two tragic instances, as seen here in Her Doll Face. One such occurrence involves duplicity on the student’s part, and the other, illustrates the harsh side and the ultimate price that will have to be needlessly paid for personal liberty.
Academic life typically has students under stress, whether they are graduating or just starting out their first semester, and Scherazade is no exception. The Lonely Adjunct is a nickname she has given her second instructor seems to fit her well, and she gives a bit of preferential treatment to the young art student as an ambivalent teacher-student relationship sets the stage for the tragedy that takes place. Scherazade will move forward in her quest for that magical “A” for the English Composition course she desires. The excellence she demanded of herself for two semesters and counting has eluded her, and it is the end of the semester all too soon.
The story considers the freedom American women exercised in the heyday of the Woman’s Movement, and the dangers of women finding themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, here at home as well as abroad, and the grave consequences naivete, and freedom without protection can bring when death unexpectedly swings its sickle down in such circumstances.
Intuitive, perceptive and philosophical, Scherazade is finding her way through the academic experience and young adulthood, with existential stress and strain, and more than a little bit of sorrow throughout, in this story which is the most fateful of the five-part series, the student has a brush with mortality that is heartfelt and all too human.

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L'Shem Shamayim, 2: The Zoz! Collection of Anti-Love Stories in the Jaded Flower Series Nov 12, 2017

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MISPLACED AFFECTION, personal insecurity, and neurotic obsessions come into focus in this standalone anti-love story, L’Shem Shamayim, the second in the five-part series, Zoz! and Other Anti-Love Stories in the Jaded Flower Series, considers topics and rites of passage many young adults who are coming of age may be familiar with. The lure of seduction is highlighted, and when the power of seduction rears its sexy gray head, it triggers the infatuation Scherazade suddenly develops for her art professor, Zoz Svengali. Scherazade, a kind of anti-love hero, is also a philosophically minded art student under some sort of enchantment. Is the enchantment a deliberate thing that has happened to her, or caused by a mistake, by some quirk or another that turns Professor Svengali’s sensitive art student into a zombie of love, or love zombie as she puts it. She unexpectedly become obsessed with Svengali, infatuated out of the thin air by osmosis it seems. The introverted young “newbie love zombie” struggles to understand the nature of seduction and infatuation, as well as the down side enchantment has on her. Complicating matters, the professor of her dreams is having an extramarital affair. Scherazade seems quite sure of that, but it is not with her. Although she will have her opportunity too, will she go after the object of her desire or is the end of the semester about to end in heartbreak? The L’Shem Shamayim (do it for the sake of heaven) reveals jealousy, rivalry, inadequacies, undergraduate misery, and the imagined, or real suffering of a young art student struggling with personal inadequacies and young adulthood. In this series of missed opportunities and wacky misadventures, Scherazade narrates her stories with schmaltz, melodrama, and a great deal of humor. Well now, class is about to begin, and the cool, but very hot professor—Svengali is about to disappear something sublime. Let us get to class in a timely fashion, and see how he enchants his class, and who is going to be modeling in figure drawing class later. Will it be the professor’s mistress or a beautiful golden satyr?

FOLLOW the young artist through her five-part series of stories in “Zoz! and Other Anti-Love Stories in the Jaded Flower Series, a collection of stories exclusive to Amazon that may just make you cry laughing.

NOTICE OF TITLE CHANGES: Please note the final two stories in this series now have new titles! "Her Doll Face, 4" and "Scorpio Rising, 5" are the new titles of the stories.

Thank you for your purchase of a download.

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Zoz Svengali, 1: The Zoz! Collection of Anti-Love Stories in the Jaded Flower Series (The Jaded Flower Series of Stories) Nov 12, 2017

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THE MAGIC OF ART, and the power of seduction come into play, in this story of unattainable desire, at its core, an anti-love cautionary tale of academic proportions, told by an undergraduate art student gone just a little bit crazy. The lead character, SCHERAZADE, is a young and sensitive to the point of neurotic art student, edged up about her personal inadequacies, both physical and academic. She suddenly becomes enchanted with her charismatic professor of art, ZOZ SVENGALI, when gossip on campus soon has it that he may be having an extramarital affair with his studio model. The lure of seduction, both inadvertent, and intentional drive the unwitting existentialist just “a little bit nuts” as she puts it. The mystery of a person’s charisma; the powerful charisma stars typically deploy to win over others, American celebrity culture, imagined alien abductions, and other digressions having to do with magicians and Hindu adepts enter the artist's interior dialogue and ruminations. Scherazade, grapples with the growing pains often associated with young adulthood, and coming of age. As the series unfolds, she laments, and cautions against being taken in by seducers, but not without humor. Readers, you are all cordially invited to follow this full five part series of lost dreams.

Join us now if you will, to either cry until you laugh, or laugh until you cry, and you too can ace Svengali's advanced course along with Scherazade!

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