The Heat of Penang (Patreon)

I went to Malaysia last year and visited Penang staying at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel. Something about the whole vibe of the British Colonial past in Georgetown struck a creative note, or perhaps it was the ghost of past guests like Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Hermann Hesse. Anyway, I set my story in the past using a physician as narrator, in a time just before our full understanding of the power of hormones became known