Autophagy (Southern Discomfort Season 3 Book 1) by Ezekiel Kincaid - MARCH 7th

Autophagy-- consumption of the body's own tissue as a metabolic process occurring in starvation and certain diseases. 

On the outside, Millie Marsh was an upstanding, righteous woman. On the inside, she was filled with hate and bigotry. Fourteen-year-old Jeremiah Marsh didn't realize how dangerous that hate was until his mother found out he was gay. With his father, Jonah Marsh dead and gone, Jeremiah has no one to protect him from the hyper-religious wrath of his unstable mother. Day after day, the abuse escalates, sending the young man down a rabbit hole of destruction, both physically and psychologically. 

In Autophagy, The Paranormal Pastor tackles the horrific subject of religious abuse towards the LGBTQIA+ community, and the harm such abuse causes. Using his emotionally charged style, Kincaid makes sure this splatterpunk story will stay ingrained in your memory long after it's over. First appearing in the anthology Napalm Psalms, the tale has left its mark on readers. 

As one reviewer stated: "This one came at me from all sorts of directions.I'm a lesbian and a mother, and I cannot fathom the amount of hate the mom in this story has towards her own child. Fair warning, this one is tough to read but it's extremely well written. Affecting throughout, it becomes a bloody, gory fever dream at the end."