Lizzi Duff

In the Shadow of the J Lizzi Duff

Queers & Crow.

Love & Guns.

Bombs & Butterfly.




Extreme climate collapses New York City. Transwoman ganglord Lordy fights feds and a traitor to rule her Brooklyn neighborhood in the shadow of the elevated J-train. Set in near future, IN THE SHADOW OF THE J tracks Lordy, her transgender gang, and her lost love as city life crumbles.




Can Lordy's bombs stop the feds?

How will Lordy deal with her traitor?

How will she cope from a wheelchair with her crippling illness?

Will the feds take her prisoner?

Will Lordy ever ride the "J"?




A spectral crow befriends Lordy. Lordy's feral eyes see like a creature. Lordy shapeshifts into a Monarch butterfly, gaudy black and orange.




Shamanic realms blend and blur.




But will Lordy rule?



Or, must Lordy go?