THE FICTIONFOX

Genre: Mystery/Horror Published: Grove Press, May 2026 (UK) / October 2026 (US) My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Oh yes, we are the lunatics, and yes we dwell in hell. The flames are hot but hey guess what? There’s torture here as well! Yet there’s a niggling conundrum, and that riddle go-eth thus: Are we dreaming this place, or is this place dreaming us?" I went back and forth on whether I could justify rounding up my rating to a full 5-stars.. On the one hand; objectively, this wasn

Genre: Memoir, Disability Essays Published: Red Hen Press, June 2026 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "I’m not sure which inheritance has shaped me more— that of the women in my family who came before me, or that of my non-blood community, my Crip siblings and ancestors. I am someone with stories written on my body because of how my body is made, how it looks , how it inhabits the world— I need people to help me in order to live, a need that is painted as beautiful by some and horrible

My Suspiciously Specific Series came into life as a way for me to explore and examine highly (often very specific) microtropes or trends I’ve been loving within my reading lately. A love for novels set in liminal spaces has been on the list of microtropes that I wanted to cover for a long time. Inspired by the trailer of a soon to be released movie, The Backrooms, that is soon to spark broader interest in the topic, I decided that today was the day to tackle this one. For tho

Genre: horror novella Published: Nictitating Books, March 1st 2026 My Rating: 4/5 stars “Humans are meat that dreams. Impulses of flesh within flesh, sinew and gristle, movement and longing, electric and chemical signals that create an experience called human.” There are a few tropes that I’d consider my “buzz-kill-words” in books. They are basically the opposite of buzz-words, meaning that if I hear your book contains one of these tropes, I will almost instantly lose interes