Tell Me I'm Worthless

by Alison Rumfitt · 2023

Three years after a night spent in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah, Alice’s life has unraveled into a bleak, haunted routine—selling videos of herself cleaning for cash, drowning her thoughts in alcohol, and living under the weight of a lingering, unseen terror. When Ila summons her back to the forbidden house, past the "KEEP OUT" sign, Alice must confront the night that shattered them all. Together they return to the crumbling walls, where the house itself seems to have claimed Hannah, turning the building into a nightmarish entity that feeds on their trauma. As the friends navigate grotesque supernatural horrors and the stark realities of a world that marginalizes and oppresses, they are forced to tear down their own defenses and confront the ways fascist cruelty can turn victims against each other. Alison Rumfitt delivers a razor‑sharp, darkly funny, and deeply unsettling tale that blends queer trans‑fiction with visceral horror, exploring how personal and societal horrors intertwine and how survival may demand confronting the very darkness within.