Feelings Are Hard, Let’s Do Math: Serena Kaylor’s The Calculation of You and Me

After spending a good part of Junior year as a couple, Josh dropped quite the bomb in Marlowe Meadows’ lap. He didn’t think she was reciprocating his romance very well, so he decided they needed a break. She did not agree with this assessment since she’s done nothing but everything he told her to. Suffice […]

Of Wonder Years and Childhood’s Fears: C. D. Kester’s Trailer Park

Four Houston youths find their nice, normal lives interrupted as mundane and supernatural threats collide in C. D. Kester’s novella length dark fantasy. Teenager Richie Sterling lives with his dad in the Los Hermanos Trailer Park along with his best friends Jose, Frankie, Jaime, and Roberto. They live normal lives, playing capture the flag or […]

A Cautionary Tale Just Waiting to Happen: Justina Ireland’s Scream Site

Sabrina is looking for a good story to report on, something that will net her a shot at the Daily Sun summer internship program. However, her best friend Evelyn doesn’t seem to appreciate the material she’s putting forth, calling it stuffy. Then again, Evelyn is all about hot gossip and Hollywood reportage. However, when she […]

And Don’t It Make Your Brown Eyes Greeeen: Ghoulies (1985)

Orphaned Johnathan Graves (Peter Liapis) is moving back to the old family home and bringing his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) with him. The house is a fixer upper, but nevertheless a sprawling manor with grounds. While searching around the place, trying to get a feel for the family he never knew, Johnathan discovers a large […]

Question Everything, Assume Nothing, Learn the Truth: Jenna Miller’s We Got the Beat

As her junior year kicks off, Jordan Elliot expects an editorial role in her high school paper like her besties Audrey Lim and Isaac Berman have received. Unfortunately, her non-binary teacher Mx. Shannon has other plans: Jordan is given a standard reportage beat covering volleyball. Having her expectations blown apart is frustrating, but then the […]

A Christmassy Christmas Time (With Ghouls): Anna and the Apocalypse

Anna Shepherd (Ella Hunt) has big plans for when she’s done with school. She wants to see the world, take some time off for herself. Her bestie John (Malcolm Cumming) knows about and supports these plans … sort of. He’s smitten, but his affection is unnoticed and therefore unrequited. They’re still a bit off, of […]

Everyone Who Lives There Is Lost: Nowhere (1997)

Dark’s (James Duvall) life is one perched on the verge of apocalypse. He is ostensibly in high school, but he never actually goes during daylight hours. Ostensibly working on a video project documenting something he loves, he is really just using it to capture his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True) on camera doing her thing. That […]

A Lovely Slice of YA Horror, Served Gay AF: Kayla Cottingham’s My Dearest Darkest

Finch Chamberlain is trying out at the highly selective Ulalume Academy when her life takes a turn for the worse when she accidentally outs Selena St. Clair and her friends who were hiding in the music hall to take hits off a vodka bottle while dishing. It’s the start of a terrible fiendship, and that […]

I Wish I Were Special: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3

While trying to set up shop and society in Knowhere, located inside the head of a dead space god, the Guardians of the Galaxy are also dealing with their own baggage. Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is stuck pining for the Gamora (Zoe Saldaña) he was in a relationship with, a woman who was reverted to […]

Infected With Where I Live/Let Me Live Without This Empty Bliss: Cyn Balog’s You Won’t Believe Me

Willow Lafayette is the teenage daughter of a couple of scientists, one of whom has reached some awareness by the public for his work on treatments and vaccines relating to “the screw,” a viral contagion responsible for the latest global pandemic. That attention has gone from bad to worse since he’s walked away from the […]