(2.5)

Before he went "legit", Chuck Tingle wrote a horror novella. Straight is not subtle; conceptually, it's a cosmic version of The Purge, where once a year cisgender straight people go on a mindless rampage, brutally murdering anyone who falls under the queer umbrella. By year three, there's a vaccine, but of course not everyone is willing to get vaccinated. Not everyone is going to take the most basic precautions to protect themselves and others.

"Saturation Day" as a concept only makes the barest modicum of sense, but you go with it because it's horror and it's a novella. This is from the self-published days, so there's a distinct air of "this was never proofread", from where/we're/were confusion, to "centauries". There's a lot of gore but it becomes samey after a while

Straight is about rage, with near zero subtext, and we learn that the greatest nemesis of the gay is ... the ally. It's sort of fun, it's sort of zippy, but it definitely repeatedly takes you out of it. It sits in that sweet spot of "there should be less of this and more focus" and "there should be more of this, with a wider scope".

But you really do notice the spelling.