Moonflow and Every part Lifeless & Dying

I’m so glad the shockingly brilliant, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style cowl of this e-book grabbed my consideration whereas I used to be doing work at a neighborhood cafe/bookstore the opposite day, as a result of I in any other case won’t have heard about Moonflow, and what a visit it turned out to be. Simply certainly one of my favourite reads this 12 months.

Moonflow is, as writer Bitter Karella described it in a latest interview, “Psychedelic trans cosmic fungal splatterpunk.” It follows Sarah, a trans lady who grows and sells trippy mushrooms, on a determined seek for a mushroom generally known as the King’s Breakfast. It is the kind of tour that appears doomed from the beginning, because the King’s Breakfast is simply present in a forest greatest identified for being a spot individuals don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails nearly instantly. The forest is haunted and seemingly in a continuing state of change, there is a TERFy lesbian off-grid cult that is engaged in some deeply weird actions and poor Sarah is… simply doing her greatest (she is painfully relatable). 

This e-book horrified me, made me snicker and made me gag, usually all of sudden. It is queer as hell, impressively creepy, full of extraordinarily on-the-nose satire and a completely wild journey throughout.