The Horror of Party Beach
Novelette 9,434 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
Summer of 1955, the last summer of high school. Mike remembers his girlfriend and how wonderful it was being in love. And he remembers the awful things that happened at the end.
Content warnings 3
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