Promotional Shortlink: Books2Read.com/Pushin
Published: July 27, 2024
Pairing: M/NBi
Length: Novella (44 Pages)
Standalone: Yes (HEA-ish?)
Style: Sentient Object Romance / 18+
Related Art:
Dennis J. Rance & Couch by Mairena J
Dennis J. Rance & Couch (Salute to Freedom Edition) by AliumFungus
Pushin Cushions is a novella length M/NBi political sentient object romance book by authors Unfortunate Reads and Vera Valentine. The main romantic characters are Dennis J. Rance (a human man), and an unnamed, ungendered demonic presence that is haunting a couch.
The first co-write by longtime friends UnfortunateReads (Cassie) and Vera, Pushin' Cushions was conceptualized, cover-designed, written, formatted, and published in a manic 42-hour sprint borne out of frustration and anger at government corruption. It is a protected work of political parody; any similarities between our "hero" and a certain couch-loving republican VP candidate are purely coincidental.
Content Considerations: This story contains a Republican, and while we wouldn’t quite consider this an HEA/HFN situation, the MC might be kiiiinda into it at the end, so we’ll let you decide! The main character is male, but the couch is canonically non-binary, though some feminine references are applied to its upholstered “anatomy” for descriptions’ sake. There are also references to dolphin attraction and associated content (non-explicit, no acts are described), drinking liquor, finance bro 0nlyFans, hatred of cats, hatred of childless women that adopt said cats, s*xual penetration of furniture (flashback and present), divorce, dubc*n, dirty-talking (to a couch), slut-shaming (the same couch), light BDSM (couch spanking), technical furniture v0re/consuming (no death involved), identity theft, campaign finance fraud, misogyny, wet socks, situation-based momentary snowballing, humiliation play. All humans and furniture pieces in this story are consistently above the age of 18.
Blurb: Dennis J. Rance has been under immense pressure since being chosen as the Vice Presidential Candidate. His running mate is a dumpster fire, his wife left him, and he’s working 90 hours a week. He desperately needs a break, and decides it’s time to take care of himself for once.
So what’s a man to do when he’s alone and needs release? Well, Dennis is a little…different. When his unusual “usual” methods fail, it’s time to indulge in one of his most forbidden desires. It worked for him in college with that ratty old couch, and this new one is just so plush.
But Dennis doesn’t know this furniture has a sinister secret of its own…