Moonflow and All the things Lifeless & Dying

I’m so glad the shockingly vivid, 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 may not have heard about Moonflow, and what a visit it turned out to be. Simply certainly one of my favourite reads this yr.

Moonflow is, as writer Bitter Karella described it in a current 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 referred to as the King’s Breakfast. It is the kind of tour that appears doomed from the beginning, because the King’s Breakfast is just present in a forest finest recognized for being a spot folks don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails nearly instantly. The forest is haunted and seemingly in a relentless 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 finest (she is painfully relatable). 

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