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Every Saturday night, high-school seniors Josie (a.k.a. "Rayne Ravenscroft") and Delia ("Delilah Darkwood") don goth garb and host the campy public-access show Midnite Matinee. Producing the show helps each girl cope with her own real-life drama. Readers with patience for the layers of gratuitous eccentric detail that permeate this plot will be rewarded with a heartfelt story of a friendship in transition, fueled by funny, rapid-fire dialogue.