This Delicious Death

Two years ago, a small share of the population underwent a change called the Hollowing. Those affected survive only by eating human flesh, and the ones who went without turned feral and attacked their own families. Scientists then developed Synflesh, a synthetic substitute that satisfies the hunger, and life has slowly steadied.

Zoey, Celeste, Valeria and Jasmine are four hollow girls living in Southern California. Before graduation, they head to a music festival in the middle of the desert, with a cooler packed with seltzer, vodka and Synflesh. They plan to party.

On the first night, Val goes feral. She kills a boy from one of the bands and eats him. It is the very thing the girls have worked to avoid, and it happens in front of a crowd of strangers.

Then other festival guests begin to vanish. The friends work out that someone is hunting people like them, and that the plan aims to expose hollow people and turn the public against them.

This is sapphic horror with a gory streak and a summer-party setting. The girls have to find the person behind the disappearances and stop them, or nobody at the festival leaves alive.