This was one of my cheat reads to get the numbers up - A very fast read - at only 65 pages it couildn't be anything else.
It starts with an old man being freed from a courtroom by a rogue member of staff and taken to a river in the depths of the woods. There's a revelation about the reason for this at the end of the chapter before we move onto the main narrative.
The rest of the book follows a teenage girl (Kayla) recently taken to live in a house buried deep in these same woods by her mother and step-dad. Things are not good at home or at school. When she meets a boy her own age (Thor) by the riverside over a dead salmon, a relationship develops. Things quite rapidly escalate (65 pages) from the first pangs of adolescent love to a batshit crazy insane story of lovecraftian fish demons and domestic terrorism.
There are a few nice subtle touches in the dialogue. I particularly liked the sequence where Thor is explaining his family circumstances to Kayla, revealing how little he knows about what's actually going on all around him.
This could actually be fleshed out into a much longer narrative. There are threads dangling that I want to know more about, but, maybe leaving it to the imagination is better sometimes as this does work extremely well at this length.
Recommended for those who like a little weirdness.
Available from PS Publishing
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