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Order The Normal Monster Club from Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Brooklyn, NY, for a bonus digital copy of a new TTRPG by Brigitte Winter, published by Scryptid Games and funded through a grant from We Need Diverse Books and AH2 Romance Collections. In this nostalgic storytelling game about monsters and memory, players use a deck of playing cards, “Truth or Dare” prompts, and a Magic 8 Ball (or 20-sided die) to take their characters on a coming-of-age journey of self-discovery.
In this spooky sapphic horror romance set in a cryptid-obsessed small town, two exes–a paranormal podcaster and a stubborn skeptic–must reunite to save a missing child while investigating an unsolved mystery from their childhood.
Seventeen years ago, Em and Sid’s young romance screeched to a halt when their best friend June turned up dead. Em accepted June’s death as a tragic accident, but Sid was laughed out of town for insisting that June was killed by the Normal Monster, a local cryptid rumored to resemble a giant cicada. Now, brash, freewheeling Sid has returned to Normal to produce a podcast about the monster. Sid wants to prove that monsters are real to the community that exiled her. Cautious, reserved Em wants Sid to leave town and stop wreaking havoc on her carefully curated life, which includes her truly wonderful boyfriend Charlie. But when another innocent child goes missing, Em and Sid are forced to confront their guilt over June’s death and their feelings for one another—before it’s too late.
When buried secrets and monsters surface with the summer cicadas, will Em and Sid learn to love their own monstrousness before the past repeats itself?
Emerging in 2027 from Generous Press…
Brigitte writes sapphic stories about monsters, magic, and messy relationships. She also creates narrative games.
