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Malignant

Torture Porn in Print Author: Michaelbrent Collings It’s a holiday. The buildings should be empty. But a selective announcement went out, and a cadre of misbehaving rich kids and their ne'er-do-well professors are in attendance today at an otherwise abandoned Reina High School. Only, the session today is one of blood and pain and vengeance. As a highly trained tactical team holds the students and teachers hostage, the police swarm to launch a rescue attempt, all the while trying to understand the ringleader, Teacher. Teacher, it seems, has a lesson he wants everyone to learn, and as the bodies stack up [...]

2022-11-28T18:05:23-07:00November 28th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Painted House, A

Memories, Cotton, and Murder Author: John Grisham When you think of John Grisham, you think legal thriller, subterfuge, big money vs regular people, schemes and twists and turns galore. You don’t think of a To Kill a Mockingbird style, coming-of-age novel filled with subtle truths about people, about things seen in the depths of a somber night. This, however, is the kind of story A Painted House tells. It starts with Luke Chandler, a seven-year-old rural farm boy whose dreams of big-league baseball are getting him through a grueling summer picking cotton in the Mississippi fields with his family, hired “hill [...]

2022-11-27T20:32:54-07:00November 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

River of Silver

A Look Back at Daevabad Author: S.A. Chakraborty S.A. Chakraborty can write. I would probably read (and enjoy) her grocery list. Heck, I’d probably get it in hardback and add it to my limited shelf space. Chakraborty is that good. She is a literary siren, and you cannot walk away from even the most basic of her stories (as though she ever tells a story that is not multifaceted and rich with history and culture.) So, it’s no surprise that The River of Silver, odd offering that it is, is perfection. Now, I’m not really a short story person, but [...]

2022-11-20T11:59:51-07:00November 20th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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