Romeo has Hepatitis again. It’s no surprise, and anyway, there’s the promise of more sex, more drugs. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo.

With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that’s destined to become a queer classic.

"Romeo & Seahorse punctures the mythology of love with the tyranny of desire until everything bleeds out onto the carpet of domesticity left outside to rot in the musty weather. Yes, this is a book about addiction that actually hurts—spinning between tragedy and a happy ending, between absolute delusion and cynical collapse, between fire and emptiness, honesty and meltdown. So matter-of-fact that it becomes dissociated, so dissociated that it flails with embodiment, Romeo & Seahorse is a novel that crushes the novel form and hands it to you to smoke in a glass pipe that shatters with your complicity."
—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art