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Small town secrets and shallow gene pools

Sex at a Funeral by K. Stirling

September 18, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

CBR18 Bingo: Right – When family secrets are revealed, no one gets to claim that there is one right way to be: what love should look like, what makes a family unit the “right” kind, etc.. Sky is home for his father’s funeral. Throughout Sky’s life, his father treated him with contempt and disgust. Sky grieves the loss of his parent and that they can never reconcile. When he came out to his parents in his teens, his mother barely reacted, which was on brand […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: autistic rep, Beards, bullying, cbr18bingo, family secrets, funerals, gay panic, gay romance, K. Stirling, lavender marriage, LGBTQIA+ characters, queer romance, scandal, terrible parents

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: autistic rep, Beards, bullying, cbr18bingo, family secrets, funerals, gay panic, gay romance, K. Stirling, lavender marriage, LGBTQIA+ characters, queer romance, scandal, terrible parents ·
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Each person is a new adventure and some of those adventures are disturbing

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

January 31, 2019 by CosmoNewanda 1 Comment

This book, is a very practical and blunt statement about the part of life people don’t want to think about. People die, and when that happens someone has to take the time and the care to prepare the body. You will learn quickly if this book is for you or if it isn’t. It is gross, and it has a morbid sense of humor that is obviously needed to get through a job where death is in your face every day, sometimes quite literally. Some […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Caitlin Doughty, cbr11, ceremony, crematory, Death, family, funerals, Ritual in Death

CosmoNewanda's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: Caitlin Doughty, cbr11, ceremony, crematory, Death, family, funerals, Ritual in Death ·
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