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Wednesday’s Child

Community Secrets and Unlikable Characters Authors: Deborah and Joel Shlian Leigh Novak has left the stress of a city emergency room and the fallout of her husband’s suicide behind, moving herself and her struggling young son, Jeremy, to a small town in northern California. Leigh is taking over from the current town doctor, sliding into what she presumes will be a low stress, easy life. When she shows up on her first day to find the old doctor in a coma, however, things go from bad to worse. After loosing her first patient, a young child that she should have been [...]

2023-01-29T12:04:16-07:00January 29th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

My Heart is a Chainsaw

“Is it really winning if everybody dies?” Author: Stephen Graham Jones Jade Daniels is your proverbial, never-going-to-fit in teenager living in a small town. She’s stigmatized both by her heritage and her abusive, shiftless father. So, she seeks solace in the only place that she can find: bloody, eviscerating, slasher horror. Part of this horror obsession, of course, is a survival instinct. If you cannot escape the darkness, you might as well love it. Another part of the fixation is a hope for salvation through revenge. After all, every slasher out there has a backstory, and most of those stories show [...]

2023-01-10T18:52:18-07:00January 10th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Slewfoot

The Devil Who Became a Friend Author: Brom Abitha has problems with authority, with tradition, with piety, with a silent, docile way of life. This is a problem, considering that she lives in a Puritan colony in the New World, married to a stranger. Yet, the man she was forced to marry is not all bad. In his own way, he loves her, and he forgives her many trespasses and protects her from the vengeance of his scheming brother and the wagging tongues of the town. But when Abitha’s husband goes to examine a mysterious hole in the ground and never [...]

2023-01-01T11:58:39-07:00January 1st, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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