The debut collection from an up-and-coming young queer Black writer: McGhee's work has been featured in numerous cutting-edge literary journals. This collection builds off of those previous publications to formally launch McGhee as a fresh voice in fiction. If Black Mirror reflected Black girlhood: McGhee's stories display the funhouse oddity and unsettling escalations that made the Netflix series hit so close to home, with a heightened focus on the uncanny valleys of race and gender. An entry into "weird girl" lit: A trend dominated by white women writers like Ottessa Moshfegh, Rachel Yoder, Melissa Broder, and others, "weird girl" lit showcases the social fallout experienced by women who test the bounds of this world and toy with the grotesque and extreme. McGhee expands this buzzy trend to the brutality of racialized girlhood, as well as timely and universal social struggles (homophobia, religion, class disparity and economic instability). Plugged into a community of writers: Demree McGhee is completing her MFA at San Diego State University, where she has met and connected with a strong network of California-based writers who are excited to support her work. For fans of K-Ming Chang and Brandon Taylor: Readers will be enthralled by a new voice in a field of writers of color elevating and experimenting with the literary short story to exhume racial dimensions and tensions in everyday life.