Dead Star Park

Working at an amusement park hasn’t been everything Casey dreamed it would be. Sure, she gets to threaten obnoxious guests and sneak slugs of whiskey, but her former best friend is avoiding her, she’s the only employee without a plan for post-high school life, whenever she steps foot in the Haunted House she starts bleeding and hallucinating, and cleaning up vomit full of half-digested hot dogs is disgusting. Oh, and her family is drowning in medical bills while a disembodied voice that sounds like a thousand nails being pounded into her skull keeps popping up to tell her that life is meaningless. Maybe she should lead with all that, but it’s sort of awkward to bring up. So as much as Casey would rather sleep her empty days away, she ends up investigating the cold case of a little boy who vanished in the very same room of the Haunted House that’s making her see visions of the end of the universe. She just wants to convince herself that she isn’t going insane, but over the course of the summer Casey will uncover a conspiracy, reckon with the consequences of her self-destructive habits, help her mother deal with a serious illness, find meaning in a life she sees as meaningless, and eat way, way too much cotton candy. Just, like, a ridiculous amount. It’s really bad for you, don’t eat as much as Casey does.

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