Stories by @pawnshopblues

Wuthering Heights

(i couldn't stomach emerald fennels casting.....) Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.

Big Swiss

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…

Paradise Rot

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh

Tender is the Flesh

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

The Devil Wears Prada 2024

With an aspiration to become a journalist, Andy, a young graduate, travels to New York. She starts working as an assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the cynical Miranda Priestly.

The Secret History 1984

Period/book-accurate casting

Rouge

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death.

Barbie

Barbie if it was done by Sofia Coppola (sorry Greta)

Where Were You When California Wept

patreon-based novel written by Alana https://www.patreon.com/alanabananaxox/posts

The Secret History 1994

1994 adaptation of the secret history (please use only actors that would have been the appropriate age during the period! can be rough estimate)

Sofia Coppola's Anne Boleyn

The rise and fall of Anne Boleyn.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Bored with her seemingly meaningless life, a young woman escalates her use of prescription drugs so she can sleep through the whole year. https://www.pinterest.com.au/blumarinesiren/bookshelf/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation/

The Stolen Heir

A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel.

Bunny

A darkly funny, gothic novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls at a New England university.

Ottilie

patreon-based novel written by Alana https://www.patreon.com/alanabananaxox/posts https://www.instagram.com/evilhousewifexox/ cover image made by me but will be changed if/when alana posts one!

Lapvona

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot in a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. better synopsis on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59089897-lapvona

Possession

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Girl, Interrupted

A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.