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It Waits on the Top Floor

Awful Offices Author: Ben Farthing Chris has lost everything, but he has gained one thing: his son. And for his son, he’s willing to fight and to face unimaginable horrors. Chris’ aspiring career as an architect was long since destroyed by his college professor. Now his marriage is over. But his newly adopted son, Eddie, is his world. For that, he’s willing to reunite with the professor who destroyed his promising future and stole his hard work. Together with this nemesis, he will be working with a suspicious billionaire to investigate a skyscraper that has appeared overnight. Something about Chris, about [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-13T20:10:11-07:00October 13th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Positive

Happiness and Sunshine in the Zombie Apocalypse Author: David Wellington Finn has lived his life safe from the aftereffects of the zombie apocalypse. The surviving parts of the world are hunkered into fortified home bases. His home base is in New York, where he regularly listens to the paranoid older generation tell stories of horror and helps fish in the Subway tunnels, wondering what they must have looked like before. He is protected. He is happy. He, like the others his age, makes fun of the older generations, many of whom are too terrified to leave their skyrises. That’s until Finn [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-13T11:43:10-07:00October 13th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, zombie, zombies|

Nothing But the Rain

Memories in the Rain Author: Naomi Salman In Aloisville, the rain washes away your sins, your past, your memory, you. No one knows when it started, or why, but Laverne has been keeping a journal and performing experiments. She now knows how much rain it takes to wash away a moment of your time and how much it takes to leave you an empty shell. It rains every day now, and her notes cover the walls of her house, reminding her, lest she forget. The notes talk about how much rain does how much damage, about what they have learned over [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-05T19:31:57-07:00October 5th, 2024|Tags: book review, dystopian, horror, novella, read, reading|