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The Masterpiece of Queer Retribution and Radical Grace: A Review of The Gym Tetralogy

Jason M. Buss’s four-book saga, The Gym (comprising The Rise & Fall of Detroit’s Prettiest Little Heartbreaker, Beautiful Wreckage, Pride & Punishment, and Full Circle), is a staggering, monumental achievement in contemporary queer literature. It seamlessly fuses the suffocating reality of domestic trauma, coercive control, and addiction with a deeply atmospheric,...

Dear Readers,

We’ve all been there—standing in the path of the one person who knows exactly how to break our defenses.

In this exclusive new excerpt from Curveballs & Curtain Calls, the polished masks of the theater department and the varsity baseball team completely slip away. Under the fading lights of the Rosenberry High parking lot, Elliot Maypedal and Jared King finally break three years of...

Before the shadows of an ancient, reality-bending forge closed in, and before a predatory love systematically dismantled his world, there was only Jimmy Davidson in the neon-drenched haze of a Detroit dance floor.

Celebrated as "Detroit’s Prettiest Little Heartbreaker" after a fateful amateur night, Jimmy’s breathtaking beauty was supposed to be his armor against a harsh world. Instead, it became the catalyst for a harrowing descent through domestic trauma, forced addiction, and into the jaws...