What She Wants

Duke is a sarcastic but good-natured mechanical engineering student just trying to survive college life—group projects, crushing deadlines, and a social life that's mostly built around vending machines and late-night Reddit threads. His comfort zone is machines, not people, and definitely not women, who have always seemed like an unsolvable equation to him. One rainy evening, Duke heads to the dorm laundry room only to find it partially flooded. Thinking nothing of it, he tries to unplug a faulty dryer. A sudden electrical surge knocks him unconscious. When he wakes up, Duke discovers something bizarre—he can hear what women are thinking. Not voices, not whispers—thoughts. Clear, uncensored, brutally honest inner monologues. At first, it's overwhelming and awkward. He learns more than he ever wanted to know about the girls in his classes, his female friends, his professors—even strangers at the coffee shop. Every crush, frustration, hidden insecurity, and bold opinion now plays in his head like an unwanted podcast he can’t pause. But he comes to the realization that he has a window into the female mind. He can't miss this opportunity.