Red X by David Demchuk Faire Ling Ma’s Severance is a

Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story

leaves grow in a perpetual state of fall: not quite dead

Florida is a magnificent achievement

short on time yet big on flavor

But how much time

Red X by David Demchuk Faire Ling Ma’s Severance is aIn 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face everything from casual indifference to outright prejudice. As decades pass, more men vanish, revealing a terrifying, centuries old demonic presence at the heart of the disappearances. Interspersed throughout, the author shares autobiographical vignettes: his earliest brushes with death and fear, his observations