The Girl in Red

by Christina Henry

She wasn’t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.

The dissection of horror tropes through the eyes of women is a recurring theme in the book. I can kind of imagine reader's yelling "YES! THIS!" at multiple points in the story where Red flatly refuses to play to a stereotype.

late that night, Red heard the rolling music of their argument from the room down the hall,

“I know. There are a lot of monsters out there, and all of them look like humans,”

Human monsters were everywhere, roaming free without the leash of civilization to hold them.

Why does everyone have a fucking gun? she thought.

I wonder that too, Red.

They think the Cough came out of a government lab, that everything that’s happened is part of some massive conspiracy.”

One of those moments where the story is a little too close to what I read on Twitter for my comfort.