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Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for
each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a
car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie's mother
passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut down, Jackie
doesn't know what to do but she doesn't let that stop her. She picks up the
biggest rock she can carry and puts it through the window of a car. Smash. She
intends to leave before the police arrive, but they're early. Ann is Jackie's
best friend, but she's got problems of her own. Her mother is chained up in
the basement. How do you bring that up in casual conversation? "Oh, sorry I've
been so distant, Jackie. My mother has more teeth than she's supposed to, and
she won't eat anything that's already dead." Ann and her sister Margaret don't
have much of a choice here. Their mother needs to be fed. It isn't easy but
this is family. It's not supposed to be easy. It'll be okay as long as
Margaret and Ann still have each other. Add in a cantankerous old man, his
powerfully stupid dog, a headless ghost, a lesbian crush and a few unsettling
visits from Jackie's own dead mother, and you'll find that One Bloody Thing
After Another is a different sort of horror novel from the ones you're used
to. It's as sad and funny as it is frightening, and it is as much about the
way families rely on each other as it is about blood being drooled on the
carpet. Though, to be honest, there is a lot of blood being drooled on the
carpet.
each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a
car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie's mother
passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut down, Jackie
doesn't know what to do but she doesn't let that stop her. She picks up the
biggest rock she can carry and puts it through the window of a car. Smash. She
intends to leave before the police arrive, but they're early. Ann is Jackie's
best friend, but she's got problems of her own. Her mother is chained up in
the basement. How do you bring that up in casual conversation? "Oh, sorry I've
been so distant, Jackie. My mother has more teeth than she's supposed to, and
she won't eat anything that's already dead." Ann and her sister Margaret don't
have much of a choice here. Their mother needs to be fed. It isn't easy but
this is family. It's not supposed to be easy. It'll be okay as long as
Margaret and Ann still have each other. Add in a cantankerous old man, his
powerfully stupid dog, a headless ghost, a lesbian crush and a few unsettling
visits from Jackie's own dead mother, and you'll find that One Bloody Thing
After Another is a different sort of horror novel from the ones you're used
to. It's as sad and funny as it is frightening, and it is as much about the
way families rely on each other as it is about blood being drooled on the
carpet. Though, to be honest, there is a lot of blood being drooled on the
carpet.
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