Records of the Hightower Massacre
“…an increasingly violent and bloody narrative… absorbing… smartly focused… a bleak, engrossing tale about diversity and acceptance in a tyrannical future world.”
– Kirkus Reviews
THEY WILL CORRECT YOU… ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
HC3, the Hightower Course Correction Center, “recruits” LGBTQ+ people to participate in a program that will help them get the jobs they need to survive in the dystopic conditions of AMCONS City, center of a post-American territory run by a fascistic military. All they have to do is adopt cisgender, heterosexual identities. Ash, who is black, non-binary, and asexual, meets Aubrey, a white, trans, gay man, at a job fair where they face rejection after rejection… until they get recruited. They wind up in a converted slaughterhouse where the people in charge use brutal conditioning methods as well as the ghastliest forms of torture and murder imaginable to “help” newly recruited prisoners.
#1 Amazon bestselling horror writer L. Andrew Cooper and superlative dark poet Maeva Wunn team up to deliver a fast-paced, horrific ride into the depths of human depravity as Ash and Aubrey tell their tale. While the terrors are intense, characters propel the story: Ash and Aubrey form a core of friends within the program who resist and, eventually, learn to fight back.
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About the Authors
L. Andrew Cooper
There’s enough about L. Andrew Cooper around here. Scroll down. Check the CV, Books, Short Stories, Screenplays, Links, About. You get the idea. It’s his site.
Maeva Wunn
Maeva Wunn is a bisexual, non-binary, neurodivergent writer of poetry and prose, crafter, history buff, and music enthusiast living with chronic illnesses. They have been writing poetry since childhood. They spent most of their life in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to the Midwest after meeting their spouse. They currently reside in Iowa with their spouse and cats.