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Check Engine Light

by: Rats Alice Trujillo

Publisher: Unknown (2025)

$16.00

Staff Pick by comrade: HAL

a story about being queer, depressed, poor, and young in seattle. something terrible is happening under the surface, that might destroy the whole world. but you have to buy groceries, the bike broke, and your partner got too drunk again, so you just can't think about it too much. a masterfully crafted landscape of misery. rats is the real thing, and what a thing that is.