Bad Girl in the Box by Tim Curran

 

Birch Street. A beautiful neighborhood on a beautiful summer day.
Then raw meat falls from the sky.
People are at first offended, then intrigued.
Once tasting it, they can eat nothing else. It becomes an addiction
that owns them body and soul, releasing pent-up frustrations,
secret desires, and nameless horror. And when the meat runs out,
the monsters are loose on Birch Street.
Into this hell zone of starvation, rot, and worms comes a conflicted,
traumatized young woman. She’s returning home after a long, painful
absence. She alone broods over the secret of the meat. Through her is
deliverance from starvation.
But only at the most horrific price. 

One would think that juicy, tender, succulent, meat raining down free from the sky would be a good thing. But no, this flavorful, perfectly seasoned, filet and well marbled shank is not a gift from heaven, and the people of Birch Street are not blessed on this day. When Bria comes home for a visit to her mother's house in the ultimate dysfunctional relationship she is not expecting a peaceful good time, but she never expected the entire neighborhood to go to hell.

You'll need a strong stomach for this one! Bad Girl in the box is a raunchy, gruesome, and gory read full of open festering sores and gallons of pus. It is beyond dark and twisted and definitely not something to be read on a lunch break, or even while snacking, unless you have a stomach made of steel and nonexistent gag reflex. I may need to go vegetarian for a while after reading this. 

4 out of 5 stars

I received a complimentary copy.

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About the author

Tim Curran lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard, as well as the novella The Corpse King. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, and anthologies such as Shivers IV, High Seas Cthulhu, and Vile Things.

For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.

Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com