Scarlett Barnhill
The Classics
​The cabin forced them to face each other. Returning to Goodtown will force them to face everything else... When high school senior and known nuisance Evergreen Cutler saves his ex-best friend Garrett from being hit by a truck, he's offered a week-long trip to a cabin in the Rocky Mountains. Tragically, the cabin comes with a caveat: Garrett is coming too, in honor of their shared New Year's Day birthday. The last thing that he wants to do is share a tiny hunting cabin with the person who hurt him the most, but he's always been a sucker.​ Garrett Spelling, captain of the baseball team at Prairie Mount High School, has done everything that he's ever been asked. He follows a strict diet and upholds his golden boy name over the colorful parts beneath. For most of his life, he's tamped down his biggest secret. Garrett is gay, and now he's stuck in a cabin with the reason he realized his sexuality in the first place. His other secret? He biked into that truck on purpose. Combating all the problems they left behind in the rearview mirror of Garrett's pickup truck will take a lot more than beaded bracelets and dancing in their underwear.
For as long as there have been Strange People, they have been afraid of us. Callum Chessman has finally reached his last year at Wildbrush Academy for Strange People. Between telekinesis, bipolar disorder, and being hopelessly in love with his best friend Nick, he has a lot on his plate. Then students with anomalous strange behaviors begin to vanish. Through a nationwide network of kids Callum met during his stint in the mental ward, he soon discovers that Anomalous kids haven't just been going missing from Wildbrush. They've been going missing from every Strange school in the United States. ​ Callum has never been good at staying in his lane. He will find out what is happening to his friends. There's just one thing to keep in mind: Don't let them catch you.
Goodtown, Colorado: her ancestors built this prairie truck stop town. Black lipstick and platform boots can’t save seventeen-year-old Gemma Spelling from herself. On a hot summer night, she overdoses and lands in a psych ward with nothing but a journal full of songs. Despite diagnoses and therapy, the hospital does not give Gemma a direction, and in the wake of her overdose, she’s spinning out of control. Then, popular reality TV show Small Town, Big Talent selects Goodtown as one of its casting locations, and Gemma knows she has to be a part of it. With the bow of her cello and the songs scrawled into her notebook, she lands in Hollywood. Her stagnant, unbalanced life in Colorado becomes something much greater than she expected to find in Los Angeles. Between the people she left behind in Goodtown and the secret she’s been harboring for three years, being on national television can’t change what made her. But with the strength of one bipolar theater kid, her broken but well-meaning family, and the queer people of small towns across America, Gemma realizes she may not be facing the world alone.
Echo Creek, Colorado: A quaint mountain town hidden within the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Here, twins Seth and Katie ride the death of their parents to the doorstep of their long-lost brother Ben, a millennial repairing a once-rotting mansion. This house comes with a thousand faces, from church to inn to psychiatric hospital, where the lights flicker, teacups shatter, and the clock on the third floor doesn’t chime. While Katie immediately sees the stories of the dead in the walls, Seth shrinks into the weight of the death of their parents and an HIV diagnosis he’s told no one about. Katie can’t find the thrills she’s desperately seeking, but a one-shoed entity with bottomless eyes finds Seth. He comes with a threat: find his name, or he will destroy everything Seth loves. Haunted by their own grief, the twins will soon discover what haunts the walls all around them. Entities appear in windows and mirrors. Something dark lingers in the corners of this house. Something is wrong. Between witches, abandoned buildings, and cemeteries, the twins will find out what threatens their new home. An exploration of loss, self-discovery, and queer solidarity across time and space, Only Slightly Dead assures you of one thing: you are not alone.
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A month before his eighteenth birthday, Lane Winters overdoses on his bedroom floor. A year after his death, his boyfriend Kieran steals his ashes, intent upon taking Lane to all the places they promised each other they would go. Caleb Winters spent the last year caring for his grieving mother and coping with his brother's death by holding onto his sobriety with both hands. He's not prepared to move back to Denver and face the people he left behind, and he'd rather rot in bed and watch tapes on VCR than speak to his father. When he has to chase after Kieran, he's , ready to explode, but seeing Vanya again is something else. Love, maybe? Fuck. Vanya Nilsson had something very bad happen to her. She's had a lot of bad things happen to her, but in the last year, she's become more herself than she knew possible. Leave it to Caleb Winters to throw it all into chaos — he's back in Denver for less than an hour, and she'd follow him to the moon. A roadtrip together with their friends seems like magic, the way it was before Lane died. The roadtrip of a lifetime: Driving across the western United States, they must save Lane's ashes before something happens to him. Maybe, just maybe, they need to save more than Lane, but Kieran — and themselves, too.
