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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: , , , , |

Bon Bon Voyage

High Seas and Shenanigans Author: Nancy Fairbanks What’s better than eating the finest cuisine and indulging in the most decadent kind of luxury? Eating and luxuriating on a boat! At least, that’s what Carolyn Blue, food writer, thinks. Thanks to some good luck and a few pulled strings, she now has a free Mother’s Day trip on The Bountiful Feast. All she must do is write a few columns and eat, eat, eat. Things start to go sour, however, when her husband says he can’t be her plus one for the voyage. Through comedic miscommunication and some bad luck, however, Carolyn’s [...]

2023-01-09T20:58:33-07:00January 9th, 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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