Sixteen-year-olds Harlan, Brooks, and Don’t-Call-Me-Tiffany-Sue T. S. have zilch to do during their summer in a podunk Southern swamp town. T. S., who’d give a lesser toe (or maybe pose in Playboy) to escape, hits on an if a bad tabloid can play cut-and-paste with Bigfoot photos, why can’t they serve up the real thing? But as sightings spiral out of control, Brooks finds himself playing her fake boyfriend—and wishing he were the real thing. When money doesn’t rain down as planned, Harlan begins to have doubts. But Brooks is crushing hard, and T. S. still wants more.
Dark bleatings everybody! Oh man, is this novelette fun. It kind of has everything you might want packed into a quick read – motives, sensationalism, humour, and of course, a wee bit of horror to round it all off. TS is sick of living in the shadow of her beauty pageant loving sister. She desperately wants others to see that she too has potential. She too wants fame and money, and to escape the clutches of her home town.
TS hatches a plan and ropes in her friend Harlan for what starts as a hoax, but the minute it garners media attention, things start to go way too far. I didn’t know whether to laugh, gasp, or cry in the end (but I don’t mind telling you that my automatic response was a gasp because what goes down is just… well, you’ll have to read for yourself!).
This isn’t the kind of story I’d usually be interested in picking up, so I’m really glad that the author approached me for a review. I loved it and am glad I didn’t miss out on it!
If you’d like to pick up your own copy or check out the author, the links you need are below:
Happy Goat Horror 
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