u/twinkgami

Wanted to share this underground gem I just finished!

A hazy crime-horror following a white trash family, surviving off of selling snuff films and jars of dirt, in the days after a young girl gets kidnapped in Yeehaw Junction, FL in June-July 1999. The book mainly revolves around Skeet, a 12 yr old boy obsessed with Marilyn Manson in the fallout of Columbine.

I had the pleasure of buying this from Kayli herself at the NYC Pride Horror Book Fair back in June, and also got to hear Kayli read a snippet from her next book afterwards at The Twisted Spine, which I’m really looking forward to :) She had a wonderful reading voice and I really enjoy her style of prose!

I think to be transparent, I found the plot threads a bit confusing as things jumped from one to another, but I think in the end the atmosphere and intrigue made up for things I found lacking.

The most similar things I can comp this to are Gummo (and Harmony Korine films in general), Gone to see the River Man (less the plot and more the vibes), and the scenes with Cuno and the dead body in Disco Elysium.

I’m verryy used to having repetitive dreams and locations in dreams (usually a mall, my childhood home, work, school, etc) but lately I’ve gotten a new location I’ve never had in a dream.

I’m always on a plane. The plane either takes off, or is already traveling. Usually I don’t actually ever get off it, but the few times I did, I ended up in like random places in rural Japan where I was not intending to visit (like lets say my dreams destination was “Tokyo”). In one or more dreams, I didn’t have a passport and couldnt get on a return flight.

I’ve seen a lot of dream psychology about planes meaning something is “taking off” in your life or youre boarding a “new adventure” - but that doesn’t feel like what these dreams are telling me. Any thoughts?

Rec - Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz