The Servants

In The Servants, Emily White turns the lens toward the quiet storms hidden behind ordinary façades, offering a collection where longing hums beneath everyday routines and fantasies bloom with the intensity of hand-inked manga art. These stories explore contrast-youth and age, routine and desire, restraint and imagination-interwoven with melancholy, humor, and the raw ache of wanting more. The title story follows Giovanni, a middle-aged man whose unglamorous life is disrupted by the arrival of elegant new neighbors: a magnetic couple whose beauty and confidence ignite in him a blend of admiration and restlessness. "She walked past like a vision," the excerpt recalls, "her movements so fluid, so luminous, that even the street seemed to hold its breath." As Giovanni drifts deeper into daydreams-wild, cinematic, unreal-his fantasies become a mirror reflecting all he has buried over the years: regrets, desires, and the fragile hope of rediscovery.In this evocative collection, Emily White asks: What if the fantasies we create become the only place where we feel truly alive?

In The Servants, Emily White turns the lens toward the quiet storms hidden behind ordinary façades, offering a collection where longing hums beneath everyday routines and fantasies bloom with the intensity of hand-inked manga art. These stories explore contrast-youth and age, routine and desire, restraint and imagination-interwoven with melancholy, humor, and the raw ache of wanting more. The title story follows Giovanni, a middle-aged man whose unglamorous life is disrupted by the arrival of elegant new neighbors: a magnetic couple whose beauty and confidence ignite in him a blend of admiration and restlessness. "She walked past like a vision," the excerpt recalls, "her movements so fluid, so luminous, that even the street seemed to hold its breath." As Giovanni drifts deeper into daydreams-wild, cinematic, unreal-his fantasies become a mirror reflecting all he has buried over the years: regrets, desires, and the fragile hope of rediscovery.In this evocative collection, Emily White asks: What if the fantasies we create become the only place where we feel truly alive?