After suffering the horrific abuses of his Southern grandmother, father and mother, a teenage boy discovers his own queer identity through a fantasy world, but when it becomes all too real, everything he believes is called into question.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: graphic domestic abuse, abuse of a child, mention of rape, mention of drinking blood, explicit language
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