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Beneath the Salton Sea

Michael Paul Gonzalez

Ages 16+

166 pages · Released Nov 16, 2021

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Beneath the Salton Sea parent’s guide: what’s inside

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This is a cosmic horror novel with existential and psychological dread as its primary driver rather than gore or action. The story centers on a married couple (LGBTQ+ representation) facing unsettling supernatural phenomena, loss of identity, and the breakdown of communication—themes suited to mature teen readers and adults. While not graphically violent, the atmosphere is persistently eerie and deals with heavy concepts like mortality and memory loss that may be distressing to younger readers.

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Every memory is a recording. Nothing about the Salton Sea is normal. The sand isn't sand. Just piles and piles of desiccated bones. There are little pockets where life clings on, birds, reptiles, people. It's an ecosystem of living things that rely on other living things too stubborn to leave. Life forcing itself on de... Every memory is a recording. Nothing about the Salton Sea is normal. The sand isn't sand. Just piles and piles of desiccated bones. There are little pockets where life clings on, birds, reptiles, people. It's an ecosystem of living things that rely on other living things too stubborn to leave. Life forcing itself on death, or maybe the other way around. Dee and her wife Sharon find this out the hard way after making a quick stop at Salvation Mountain to film some b-roll and see the sights out in the middle of the vast nothing. A bizarre rumor of a "crack in the sky" from one of the locals sends them on the hunt for an abandoned yacht club- where they make a discovery that changes their lives forever, and those close to them as well. Could you identify a loved one by their whisper? Beneath the Salton Sea is a cosmic horror technological nightmare transcribing the raw honesty of what makes a family, what breaks them, the difficulties of communication, and the painful joy of memories. If you knew this was the last thing I'd ever tell you, what would you want me to say?

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  • Fantasy

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ISBN 9781943720651 · Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing

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