Yuehua lives in the shadow of the serial killer who claimed multiple lives close to her fifteen years prior, including her mother—whose restless spirit has haunted Yuehua ever since. A killer who used Toronto’s Don River to display their work to the world. Before they vanished. Yuehua’s spent those last fifteen years hunting them down. But when her girlfriend is killed by what appears to be the same murderer finally resurfaced, the vengeance Yuehua sets in motion will rain down destruction on everyone she cares about. Because there are a great many things Yuehua’s made herself forget, including the identity of the killer, the truth of her family history, and how thin the line between the living and the spirit world truly is. And as her understanding of reality falls apart and that line blurs into oblivion, what’s left is the knowledge that no river gives up its secrets easily, and that every river is hungry.

Your next feel bad read of the summer, The River Devours the Moon is a queer (WLW) Toronto ghost story/crime/horror novella for fans of Sara Gran's Come Closer, and Talk to Me and Shikoku.

CW: death, discussions of suicide and sexual assault

Categories: Horrorotica

22,000 words.

Tags: WLW; FF; Not everybody lives; Lingering ghosts of the past; Time moving like the washing of a river against the shore; Legacies cold and cruel

ebook (PDF/EPUB)
$4.00 (CAD)
August 18, 2026