#Kisner

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for anyone looking for excellent trans horror: OLD WOUNDS by logan-ashley kisner

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!

Children’s Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim – she…

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Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

Two transgender teens end up in a small, isolated town, where they must escape the locals who plan to sacrifice one of them to an ancient monster that only eats girls. A pulse-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Midsommar and Hell Followed with Us!

Erin and Max are two transgender teens trying to get to California. Max is desperate to finally transition, and Erin is longing to understand why she’s on this trip to begin with. The last she spoke to Max was when he suddenly broke up with her two years ago.

But when they find themselves stranded in the middle of the woods in a small Kentucky town, they realize they have much bigger problems. The locals need a female sacrifice for the monster that lives in the woods—according to them, the sun won’t come up again until the monster eats a girl . . . and it only eats what it kills. Fighting back is futile; no one selected as the offering has ever survived the night.

When the two strangers show up, the locals believe they have the perfect candidate. The irony of the situation is almost too much to fathom.

The thing is, the locals don’t know who they just trapped as their sacrifice. They don’t know Erin’s and Max’s secrets, which could be a death sentence on a good day. And the monster that lives in their woods has never faced prey who have already fought so hard to live.

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2024 reads / storygraph

Old Wounds

YA horror

two trans teens escape from their small town to drive to California

when they run into car trouble in the middle of nowhere after seeing a flash of something in the trees, they end up at the mercy of a group of men intent on sacrificing them to a beast - but the beast only takes girls

the question of whether the beast respects gender identity gives them a potential chance to escape - but either way one of them will be in danger, and they’ll have to do whatever they can to escape, and maybe repair their strained relationship in the process

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btw my next book— as far as i can tell the only mainstream novel about trans werewolves that isn’t smut— comes out in september :) it’s about detransition, lots of gross body horror informed by transness, biblically accurate love triangles, and the power of autonomy love friendship and weaponized hockey sticks!!

u can preorder it now and preordering greatly helps prove that trans authors and trans horror has an audience, i love u all

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (September 10th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

Gita Desai is Not Here to Shut Up by Sonia Patel

To the Bone by Alena Bruzas

Ida, In Love & In Trouble by Veronica Chambers

How to Lose A Best Friend by Jordan K. Casomar

Desert Echoes by Abdi Nazemian

Till the Last Beat of My Heart by Louangie Bou-Montes

Murder On A Summer Break by Kate Weston

They Thought They Buried Us by NoNieqa Ramos

New Sequels:

Tiger's Tale (The Tiger Saga #6) by Colleen Houck

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Happy reading!

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Burning Passion

This story was wonderful. It's a nice heartfelt thing about friendships being not lesser than romantic relationships, with Tulah being worried that she had been left behind when her teammates are getting married and stuff.

Also Harlis Benne-Neyhbol sent me. He took his wife's name. That goes hard, honestly.

Harlis Benne-Neyhbol may have been one of the buffest Grarrls in Yooyuball, but the moment someone got him talking about his wife, the lightest breeze could knock over the lovestruck fool. The Moltara team had always known this about him, of course. He’d been talking about his partner, Wila, nonstop since the moment he joined the team, but as he chatted about their honeymoon and shared dozens of almost identical photos of Wila in different places around Terror Mountain, Tulah’s patience grew thinner and thinner.

The molten Acara loved her teammates, but between this, whatever was going on between their two defenders, Zax and Vere, and Captain Alrdic’s affectionate stories about his husband Neeraj, Tulah couldn’t take much more. She was incredibly happy for them all—heck, she was practically the one who introduced Aldric and Neeraj—but the lovey-dovey mush was getting to be too much.

She knew a lot of it probably stemmed from jealousy. Not of the romance stuff—that sort of thing had never interested her—but more of the old team dynamic. And it wasn’t like she’d ever tell the team that; they were allowed to find joy however they’d like. But perhaps she could at least politely excuse herself from this onslaught of Puppyblew love.

As Harlis presented yet another photo of Wila in the Ice Caves, Tulah slammed her hands on the stone table.

“For lava’s sake, is this ever going to end?”

The photo slipped from Harlis’s hand, and Aldric shot his signature worried glare at her. She scoffed and stood up so fast her chair toppled over, then stormed out of the building. That went well.

Thankfully, Team Moltara’s training centre was near a small exit to Neopia’s surface, so that they could train on different terrains. Tulah climbed out and sat on the ground, letting the cool night air clear her mind. Just her and the constellations, shining from above.

She recalled the first time she’d ever seen the night sky. She’d been in awe of the sheer number of stars. Though they burned so beautifully, they’d also made Tulah feel small. Insignificant. She always hated feeling small.

Surprisingly, Aldric had been the one to convince her to sneak out from their molten home that night, and not the other way around. In those early days, life had felt so big, and her tight friendship with Aldric had been at the very core. The two of them, discovering Yooyuball. Forming the team. Forging friendships. It was all so… perfectly normal.

Her mind wandered back to that fateful first night outside. Aldric, ever the Kougra, was laughing and jumping all over the nearby boulders. But the longer Tulah stayed out in the open, the heavier she felt. Her head swirled, and her heart beat faster.

She remembered wanting to return home, but Aldric had looked so happy, and she didn’t want to be the one that made them leave. So she fell deep into her own thoughts, until Aldric bounded over, asking something. At first, she didn’t register any of his words… and then she realised how brightly she was burning, unknowingly competing with the stars. Her flames had caught onto the surrounding fauna, and the world around them quickly began to burn. Their attempts to put it out only worsened the fire. In her panic, she instinctively bolted—and ran headfirst into a Water Zafara. Neeraj.

Everything was bound to change after that. Even though Aldric and Neeraj had barely spoken a word to one another that night as they quelled the flames—too young and shy to realise how perfect a pair they made—some years later, they would meet up again, fall in love, get married. Tulah usually enjoyed taking credit for their meetcute, but tonight…

“You okay?” It was Aldric’s voice, snapping her out of darker thoughts once again.

Tulah looked up, worried her flames might’ve leapt into a nearby bush, and relaxed when instead she saw Aldric’s outstretched hand. She batted it away as he sat beside her.

“Is Harlis still gushing over his beloved?”

“When is he not?”

This made her chuckle, just slightly.

“I’m sorry I snapped back there,” she said, not taking her eyes off the stars.

“Still as fiery as ever. Even with no tournament to train for. It’s admirable, in a way.”

It had been the first time in a long time she wasn’t fully honed in on practicing, trying to be the best she could be. She’d always been hot-tempered, but she’d never taken it out on the team. It felt like she was burning again, unsure where to put all of her energy.

“I—I miss us. I miss playing together,” she said softly.

“I know,” said Aldric, matching her tone. “But there’s more to life than Yooyuball.”

“Like honeymoons to Terror Mountain or gardening with your husband?” she said with more bite to her voice than intended.

“Haha, no. I know that’s not something you want.” He put an arm around her shoulder. “But there’s all sorts of things in this world to be passionate about.”

“I’m happy for you, really. I just feel like I used to be your best friend. And now...”

“Hey—you’re still my best friend!” Aldric leaned back to better face her. “Things may be different now, but you’re a core part of my life—we’ll always have each other.”

He paused, then: “It sounds like I could do a better job showing that, though.”

“Maybe.” Tulah elbowed him, a smile creeping across her face. “You do owe me big time, Aldy. Don’t ever forget.”

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[venting-intothevoid]

“He didn’t pass as a boy, and he made for a terribly ugly girl.”

fuck.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Thin Places, Jordan Kisner. 

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Quick doodle of these two because I read the book and couldn’t stop thinking about them ❤️

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New Releases: September 10, 2024

Middle Grade Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp Ash—or Princess Adelisa—is the youngest child of the queen, recently returned to the city of Kestrel’s Haven after spending six years on the other side of the country. Ash was hoping for a joyous reunion, but the reality is far from it. Her mother is holding the kingdom together by a thread; her brother has only taunts and jibes for her; and court is…

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Old Wounds - Review

Title: Old Wounds

Author: Logan-Ashley Kisner

Genre: Horror

Sub-Genre: Paranormal 

Audience: Young Adult

Format: Novel

Representation: Trans girl POV character, trans boy POV character

Summary: In a desperate bid to escape his abusive, transphobic mother and step-father, trans boy Max ditches his phone and sneaks out in the night to make a cross-country trip, telling nobody save his ex-girlfriend, Erin.

Erin doesn’t know why she agreed to this. Max broke up with her two years ago with no warning and no explanation. Since then he’s hardly spoken to her and yet she finds herself unable to say no when he asks for her help to make his escape.

Unanswered questions, unspoken jealousy, and hurt hang between them as they make their way from Ohio to California. But their uncomfortable reunion becomes the least of their worries as their car breaks down outside a small town, leaving them at the mercy of a monster, the people that feed it, and a landscape that distorts to keep them trapped. With legends claiming the monster wants only female victims, neither the two trans teens nor the men hunting them are sure which is the beast’s true prey.

Reflections: This had a fun premise. There are a lot of assumptions and a lot of commentary to be had with the trope of a monster demanding or targeting specifically female victims. What does a monster care for human ideas of sex and gender? What is it really looking for and why? Bringing trans characters into this situation shoves that whole mess right into the light. Of course, they would want and need to ask these questions and I like the way they were answered.

The monster was just an animal or at least something like it, a force of nature. It wasn’t following human standards; it was taking what it was given and the humans enforced their beliefs about it and fed their own biases.

Max and Erin’s relationship also simmered with all sorts of fun hang-ups. Regardless of her strained relationship with her mother, Erin had the support of her family and was able to socially and medically transition as a teenager. Max’s family forced him back into the closet, isolated and abused him, and drove him to attempt suicide. Of course, Max is simmering with jealousy (that he knows is unfair) and unable to express a damn thing. Of course, Erin is irritated, confused, and hurt by him when he can’t manage to talk to her and gets cold and snappish for no reason she can understand. But they are the only trans kids out in their hometown and they grew up with the closeness brought by understanding something in the other that nobody else sees. The mix of that closeness and the distance of how different their struggles ended up being came across very well.

Their pasts informed their reactions to getting caught up in a horror story in a realistic way. Max, who has been stuck in survival mode for years and finally has some tantalizing, desperate hope waiting for him, wants to get out no matter what, no questions asked and does not care what happens when he’s gone. Erin, who has safety and love in her life and has always had room to think beyond life or die, immediately starts asking, ‘What happens next if we escape? Who takes our places?’ and can’t fathom taking the selfish, self-protective path. I can sympathize with Max only being able to see the next step ahead of him and what keeps him alive and with Erin’s empathy pushing her to take dangerous risks because she won’t put herself above any other girl. (And then the ways both of their convictions get undermined later on.)

I did think some of Erin’s interactions with the monster felt a little too easy. It’s not what the town’s people make it out to be, sure, but it is still a man-eating monster; it did kill all the girls before her. She got on its good side and figured out its behavior with no effort, almost immediately. It seemed like there was time in the story to do a little more with the monster. The narrative was not so tightly packed that it would have gotten in the way.

Warnings: Depictions of transphobia, misgendering, transphobic violence (including sexual assault to determine a trans person’s sex), and dysphoria. Discussion of the murders and suicides of real trans people. 

Notes on Rep: Both MCs identify as transgender on page. 

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It’s a long and convoluted path, perhaps, but it’s one she’s confident will bring her back to Max, as it did before and as it hopefully will again.

Logan-Ashley Kisner, from Old Wounds

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OLD WOUNDS by logan-ashley Kisner

I loveee Erin, she's so me

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