Ghost Economy

<p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Reese </strong><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>is a drifter in the small town of Dundolk. He doesn't know what day of the week it is. All of the energy in his delicate anatomy is spent crafting the underground virtual puppet show </span><em style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>SKELEVENTURE</em><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>. It seems nothing can steal him away from his work-until the coffee shop boy </span><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Jalen</strong><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);> flirts with him. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>After the coffee shop closes Jalen edits video for a local wrestling promotion. Like Reese he loses himself in his own colorful niche fantasy world. Physical attraction brings them face to face but it's the shared love of their medium that binds them together.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Their romance is sweet and hot but a new presence in Dundolk threatens to sour it. A monster from Reese's past stalks the lovers: it's on their dates it's at their jobs it's in their bedrooms and it's not afraid to spill a little blood. The line between fantasy and reality blurs around them and threatens to expose the secrets sweethearts keep.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>Millard Crow's Ghost Economy examines the space where queer art clashes against heteronormative systems and challenges their compatibility. Crow's heroes face down paranormal and socioeconomic threats simultaneously for in this romantic-horror they are one and the same.</span></p>