Ky Simpson’s Reviews > Sunrise on the Reaping > Status Update

“After twenty opening-day deaths, we’re rewarded with a lull in bloodshed. Our performance has been satisfactory.”

“Tear-soaked, blood-soaked, misery-soaked, I lay on my side and curl myself around the base of the tree trunk.”

“spiky holiday hallucination”

“The hovercraft approaches, a vulture hungry for the remains of our allies.”

“rare and radiant”

“I’ve only ever been in an automobile a handful of times. . . Never when I couldn’t see out. Never when I was being taken to die. No light, no air. Like they buried me already.”

“I attempt to rouse her, try to find her pulse, but she has flown her body.“

“We don’t tend to let bodies ripen in the heat.”