My Dead Grandma Won't Let Me Smash

By Stan Davali Jr.

Dating is hard.
Dating while haunted by your dead Sicilian grandma?
Basically impossible.

Every time our narrator gets close to romance-candles lit, pants off, heart open-Grandma's ghost swoops in like a spiritual TSA agent with rosary beads and unsolicited opinions. She's loud. She's Catholic. She's deeply judgmental. And she will stop at nothing to sabotage hookups, crushes, and anything that smells like sin... or oat milk.

From exploding lightbulbs mid-makeout to haunted condom drawers and ghost-written Yelp reviews of ex-boyfriends ("Would not haunt again-weak rhythm"), this is the painfully funny journey of one gay man, his emotionally constipated family trauma, and the stubborn spirit of a grandma who just won't let him get laid in peace.

But behind the haunting is something more: love. The messy, overbearing, posthumously-controlling kind. And maybe-just maybe-if he can survive the ghostly sabotage, he might find the one person who isn't scared off by a floating Bible and a cold spot in the bed.

My Dead Grandma Won't Let Me Smash is a queer paranormal rom-com about sex, spirits, and surviving family-with your dignity and your libido (mostly) intact.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJYP8WNY
• ISBN13: 9798294074999
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"