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Continue reading →: Graveyard Shift by M.L. RioShe learned to live in the permanent twilight of sleep-deprivation psychosis. Life, if you could call it that, was a never-ending out-of-body experience This 110 page novella was more engaging, creative, and unique than several full-length novels I’ve read lately. M.L. Rio has now been added to my “auto buy”… Read More
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Continue reading →: Meeting CJ Leede!…In Gainesville at The Lynx Bookstore What would you do if you got to meet one of your all time favorite authors? I found out I instantly become a fangirl! And with good reason! CJ has written two of my best reads of the last few years: Maeve Fly and… Read More
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The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling
Release date: October 14, 2025 From the Publisher: Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial. The conditions are simple, if grueling:…
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Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Edited by Jordan Peele Release date: 2023 We learned the lesson early, felt it down to our bones: Of all the tools of oppression, fear was the cruelest. – Maurice Broaddus, The Norwood Trouble I now have a list of authors whose books I simply MUST read. This anthology of short stories, ranging from horror…
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An Interview With Bauder on My Father’s Name is War
An important work of fiction which wraps the author’s experiences into a clarion call for all former warfighters: Inform the next generation and stop the spread of the war machine and all it continues to destroy in its wake. When I found out I might be able to interview Bauder for their debut novel My…
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Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones Release date: April 29, 2025 Twelve-year-old Junior just saw his dead father walk from the living room to the utility room. He doesn’t know what to make of that. What he does know is he needs to figure out how to help him return to the living world…because he’s his dad,…
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The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Rating: Trigger Warnings: Suicide, suicidal ideation, cutting, drug use, overdose, child abuse, child sexual abuse, cancer, parent death, child death, racism, homophobia, neglect, trauma and violence in general. Dear Mr. Wendig, WTAF did I just read?! This book was a whirlwind of creeping terror with characters I both loved and hated. Owen is seemingly a…
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