#1 Offline ★★★★★
#2 In the Flesh ★★★★★

This is one of Kealan's older titles, and it was really neat to see how much different the writing feels from his recent works, but it still has the same fun, suspenseful, and genuinely twisted vibe that I've grown to expect from all of his writing. It's a really quick story told through instant messaging records, and it's incredibly suspenseful — I guessed a handful of different possible endings while reading it, and even though I almost always guess a twist before it happens, I somehow totally didn't see this one coming.

Not a spoiler, but for anyone who needs to know, there's a content warning for

Spoiler

brief use of the r-slur, f-slur, slut-shaming, and fat-shaming language.