Bonding

Bodily fluids
inevitable decay
wallow in dead things.

Shit this collection was good.

Horror is about loss. Loss of agency, loss of comfort, loss of love, loss of direction, loss of future, loss of goals, loss of desire, loss of innocence, etc etc etc. So to make people actually feel that horror, you need to make them care about what's being lost.

Maggie Siebert fucking CARES, and you can tell. There is so much longing and pain in this book. The emotional core stuffed inside these tight jagged stories is always burning brightly through, daring you to look away, making you pray for a happy ending even when you know it won't come.

In no particular order, the stories that stood out the most for me - Best Friend, Coping, Every Day for the Rest of Your Life (definitely my favorite of the bunch), Witches, and Smells

Need more..