Ducky

By Zach R Bartlett

Elara has always found comfort in small routines, quiet evenings, and the familiar presence of the yellow rubber duck that has sat on the edge of her bathtub for years, an ordinary object tied to memories she has never fully examined. Life has become something she moves through carefully, one day at a time, until one impossible night changes everything.

When the rubber duck transforms into a living man, charming, gentle, and strangely familiar, Elara is pulled into a world that feels both magical and dangerously intimate. What begins as disbelief slowly becomes devotion as he slips into her life with unsettling ease, offering companionship in the spaces where loneliness once lived. For the first time in years, Elara allows herself to imagine that something extraordinary might truly belong to her.

But love built on the impossible cannot remain untouched by doubt. As cracks begin to form between what Elara sees and what the world insists is real, her certainty unravels. The deeper her feelings for her ducky grow, the harder it becomes to ignore the terrifying question at the center of everything. If a rubber duck cannot become a man, then who, or what, has she been loving?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1336J69
• ISBN13: 9798349232275
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Zach Bartlett
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"