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Come Closer

By the Sea of Blood, She Will Never Leave You Author: Sara Gran It starts small. Almost easy to ignore. A tapping in their apartment, a relentless noise that travels and follows her. A noise that goes away when she is out. And then there come the inexplicable circumstances: the memo she wrote that was replaced by a string of obscene taunts towards her boss, her return to smoking, the dreams of a blood red sea at night where a dark-haired woman with fangs lies beside her and promises to never leave. At first, Amanda dismisses everything as circumstantial. A mouse [...]

2022-10-30T10:37:13-07:00October 30th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Good House, The

A Legacy of Voodoo and a Cursed Home Author: Tananarive Due The Good House is known to be just that: a blessed place. After all, it is the only house that survived a mudslide that leveled the entire town of Sacajawea. It is Angela’s heritage, this beautiful house in this backwards, rural little town. She loves it for the memories of her Grandma Marie, for the wildness of the landscape, for the very goodness that pervades it. It seems natural that she should return to this house to repair her marriage with Tariq. But when her young son Corey shoots himself [...]

2022-10-29T14:52:14-07:00October 29th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

My Dark Vanessa

Lolita Today Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell In light of the #MeToo movement, against the backdrop of a modern-day Lolita, Kate Elizabeth Russell unspools a dark tale of power, lust, and lies. In 2000, 15-year-old Vanessa has a crush on her high school teacher, Jacob Strane, a man who seems to genuinely care about her and compares her dark hair to falling leaves. But is Vanessa, with her bravery and love of the forbidden, getting in over her head? Is she experiencing an epic romance that will define the rest of her life, or is she being groomed as a victim, [...]

2022-10-05T10:06:32-07:00October 5th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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