In Mean, Mean Women: A Gay Man’s Nightmare, Scot Rogers delivers a darkly witty exploration of ambition, family manipulation, and the quiet cruelty beneath red lipstick.
As Grant Ashford flies home to Missouri to see his dying Aunt Linda before it is too late, he becomes consumed by the unsettling realization that something within the women in his family has always been deeply fractured.
His thoughts drift back to another woman decades earlier.
It’s 1988, and fresh out of college, Grant steps into his first “real” job, eager, ambitious, and wholly unprepared for the woman waiting behind the office doors. Brilliant, magnetic, and impossible to refuse, she presides over a workplace where loyalty is currency, and power is exercised with unnerving precision. Every glance carries calculation. Every expectation comes wrapped in invisible strings. What begins as a dream opportunity slowly transforms into a carefully controlled nightmare.
And yet, amid the suffocating tension, Grant finds something unexpectedly genuine in Jon, a charismatic IT specialist whose warmth and authenticity open the possibility of real love—and a more honest, unguarded life.
As past and present collide, Grant is forced to confront a devastating truth: some people do not merely resent happiness or success—they build entire identities around destroying it in others.
Told with razor-edged prose and simmering psychological tension, Mean, Mean Women: A Gay Man’s Nightmare explores power, family dysfunction, and the emotional violence hidden inside ordinary relationships.
Because the most dangerous predators don’t raise their voices.
Mean, mean women look you in the eye and calmly lie to your face.
DetailsPublished by Fab Networks, LLCFirst Edition: June 2026 ISBN Paperback: 979-8-9957894-2-0
LCCN: 2026913779 (Paperback)
Pages: 314
ISBN Kindle: 979-8-9957894-4-4
LCCN: 2026914258 (Digital)
"It's 1988"
"One Hour In"
"It's Out"
"It's A Love Story"
"The First Thing Grant Noticed"
"After Meeting His New Boss"
"Slightly Flushed"
"It's A Shame"
"Think He'll Last?"
"W.T. Smiled"
"Ready to Meet the Broads?"
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