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Rapture

The Dangers of Obsession Author: Thomas Tessier Jeff Lister is a successful man, at least in the world’s eyes. He lives in Hollywood, he’s rich, and he has built his own multi-million-dollar computer business from scratch (it’s the late 80s). But Jeff is a divorced workaholic, and his rare times at home leave him staring at his fancy fish tank, alone. That’s before he returns to his out-of-the-way hometown for a funeral and makes a connection with his high school crush. Jeff never asked Georgianne out, never took the risk of rejection. But he always wanted her. Even his current, underaged [...]

2024-08-11T14:20:32-07:00August 11th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Nestlings

Motherhood and Mayhem Author: Nat Cassidy Anna and Reid are a young couple with a new baby and a traumatic backstory. Their fertility struggles have rendered them emotionally raw, and Charlie’s birth has left formerly athletic Anna consigned to a wheelchair with dark feelings of resentment.  The sudden news that they’ve won a luxury apartment by Central Park in the exclusive Deptford building should signal a change in their luck. But something nags at Anna. Perhaps it’s the building’s unearthly silence, the grinning elevator operators, the twisting stairwells, the gargoyles that seem to move, that strange substance on the windows, and [...]

2024-08-04T17:00:24-07:00August 4th, 2024|Tags: , , |

Empire of Dirt, The

Lyrical, Literary, Loathsome, and Lifeless Author: Francesca Manfredi Valentia lives in the “blind house,” in rural Italy, growing up with her religious grandmother and her disenchanted, flighty mother. The house is said to be cursed; the women abnormal. The townsfolk stay away, and as her period approaches and she grows from childhood into womanhood, Valentia suspects that the walls weeping blood, the plagues of locust and frogs, and the men who cannot remain are all somehow tied to her. Has the curse come alive again through her emerging womanhood? The Empire of Dirt is ostensibly a coming-of-age novel, told through the [...]

2024-08-03T21:12:25-07:00August 3rd, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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