Red X by David Demchuk Faire and if Mariel gives up

and if Mariel gives up her soul

Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate

Until she wasn't

leaves grow in a perpetual state of fall: not quite dead

Tisaanah may be forced to choose between love and duty

Red X by David Demchuk Faire and if Mariel gives upIn 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face everything from casual indifference to outright prejudice. As decades pass, more men vanish, revealing a terrifying, centuries old demonic presence at the heart of the disappearances. Interspersed throughout, the author shares autobiographical vignettes: his earliest brushes with death and fear, his observations