His ex-wife's moved on but he's stuck in this terrible cycle of regret and pain. His daughter Elsie went missing 12 years ago and every year on the anniversary of her disappearance, he buries another piece of her. I Died Too, But They Haven't Buried Me Yet by Ross Jeffery What are some of your favorite 'small town with dark secret' stories? In an attempt to jog her memory, she leverages some of Tate's recent research into the town's history, and her parents' gruesome deaths, and uncovers a unique link between that and the strange door she and Tate stumbled across while out there. Leo refuses to believe Tate's dead but she can't remember what happened in those last moments they were together. Scared of the forest, yet intriqued by the local disappearances and deaths that have been reported in the woods surrounding the town's cemetery, Tate convinces Leo to go on a walk that ends with Tate going missing and Leo under suspicion. While Leo is trying to put distance between hers, Tate's all about exploring and understanding it. Leo and her girlfriend Tate are no strangers to trauma. I know it sounds weird but trust me on this, it fucking works! It's a queer, small town, urband legend, cryptid cosmic horror story. This hit the spot! It was so good, I practically read it in one sitting. I was in the mood for a quick creepy read and I had the digital review copy on my phone. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies just released this week. Get this novella into your TBR! You deserve this! If Little Miss Apocalypse wasn't on your radar before, it is now. Vaginas are now cupcakes, buttholes will forever be turd cutters. This was the most fun I've had reading in a while! It's cutesy, it's crass, and it's full of creative new alt words for our unmentionables. While she's obsessively planning their first kiss, her sidekick goth pal Stevius, who is secretly pining for her, agrees to help make her dream of going to the prom with Trevor come true, with world-annihilating repercussions. He's got a steady girlfriend and doesn't even know she exists but she won't let those social odds stand in her way. Good lord! Channeling the wonder of 80's John Hughes films, our protagonist Elizabeth believes she's living smack dab in the middle of one - she's a loserish high school girl who's madly in love with the jerkwad basketball star Trevor. And that's saying a lot because I love everything he's written. I've been a big fan of his writing for years and this is quite honestly his best book yet! It's by far my favorite. You'll learn that later, after you escape from there too.Ī dark, horrifying look at longterm child abuse and trauma, deafness, sexual exploration, and the cult-like manipulation of someone who appears to be your savior but who instead becomes just another kind of captor.ĭanger Slater knocked it out of the universe with this one. Only you don't know this new place is hell. Escaping one hell just to be plunged into another. Your father with a gun to the back of your head, and you running suddenly, running for your life. Until one night, you are dragged out of the room and into the yard and made to stand by a hole that was dug just for you. The ones they make you fight, fight and kill before they kill you. All you know is what's inside those concrete walls with you. No one ever taught you to sign, to communicate. Imagine your estranged father coming to drag you away, kidnapping you, and locking you away in a basement room with a light that never turns off and only a dirty mattress and bucket to piss and shit in. Imagine being a young deaf boy, sheltered from the world by a druggie mother who tries to do her best for you but fails miserably.
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