Popular Last Week: Pride Month Thrillers

From gripping mysteries to pulse-pounding action, these stories explore the intersections of identity, love, and danger, providing a captivating and diverse reading experience that celebrates both the suspenseful and the inclusive. Our Popular Last Week offers a unique and empowering twist on the genre.

Across Your Shattered Sky, 97 pages - Published by Llewellyn, (cc/ @Llewellyn)

“If you want to live, there is only one rule: you cannot fall in love." Suffering from an oddly selective amnesia, lonely youth Kyo believes to have finally reunited with his beloved friend Sora. As they learn of love & the dark secrets they share, they find their own inner-demons may be more real and tormented than they imagined. A tragic slow-burn dark-fantasy unfolds~ *UPDATES WEEKLY*

Story and Art by Llewellyn

ACTS ONE NINE, 279 pages - Published by Pibis Island and Co, (cc/ @pibis)

Riley "Ricin" Vondrasek is one of the most infamous serial killers in the United States of America. He has been on the run since he was 16; how does he get away with it? He eats those he kills. Now he has managed to sneak into New York to meet with his twin sister when a famous gang leader encounters him. This fateful meeting leads Ricin down a path where he will discover he is not the biggest fish in the pond.

Story and Art by Pibis Island and Co

Vei4, 151 pages - Published by Helenicchi, (cc/ @Helenicchi)

[Updates every wednesday and friday!] "We...won't be able to go outside anymore...?" 20 secret agents are now trapped in a structure in the middle of the sea without internet connection or any other way to contact other people. Here they will have to work as the "Future Project Association" and catch, fight and stop the White Crows, a dangerous criminal association, thanks to a powerful yet lethal mineral. However, there are also some problems between the agents that could interfere with their job...

Story and Art by Helenicchi

Now Hiring, 65 pages - Published by Spelledeg, (cc/ @spelledeg)

80s crime-thriller set in an alternate world where aliens made human contact in antiquity. At the crossroads of danger and opportunity, two strangers forge a bloody pact built on control and brutality—Maks, a struggling alien refugee, and Aisel, kingpin of the criminal underworld. Nothing good follows.

Story and Art by Spelledeg

Secrets at Blackpoint, 181 pages - Published by truemoodproductions, (cc/ @truemoodproductions)

Mortem, a recently graduated high schooler, kills his abusive father in self-defense. Katsumi Sicarius, a well-known assassin, kills a random citizen in a fit of rage. Lost and confused, the two meet by chance. Katsumi wants redemption, Mortem wants distraction, and the city wants them dead. Can they survive the back-alley retribution of Blackpoint? Or will they descend into madness first?

Story and Art by truemoodproductions

The Emergency Coven, 124 pages - Published by Llyrel, (cc/ @Llyrel)

When the cult that destroyed his life comes back to spread terror in town, Adrian knows that it’s time for the coven to reunite. Except that the old members are dead and the only person who could help him is powerless. Will Adrian find the allies he needs before it is too late? // Updates every other Monday.

Story and Art by Llyrel

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