Stay Alive
Jim Harberson, MacKie Wildwood, Stephen Baskerville
Paperback
(Markosia Enterprises, Jan. 20, 2020)
Stay Alive is a horror comedy about celebrity exploitation, mob justice, and serial killers. Its heroine, Jane Morgan, is an actress fallen from an Oscar-nominated film debut into personal misadventures and Z-grade, T-and-A slasher flicks. Desperate to rescue her career, she provokes uKill.com. uKill is a mob justice entertainment consortium that murders whomever its website patrons choose by popular election--literally anyone, anywhere. By spoiling the last-wish pro baseball adventure of a terminally ill child, Jane becomes uKill's target. She parlays her calamity into a starring role on Stay Alive. It's a reality TV show documenting her attempts to avoid becoming uKill's next victim. Jane's blood-splashed redemption path follows, populated by stalkers, assassins, and show-me-the-money allies.