“Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new. Invasive species integrate with or push out native species. The landscape you see around you […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Body Horror Edition
The swell of my belly increases with each new dawn, my joints all filled with useless fluid, hindering movement and completion of daily tasks. I abhor my present state, but […]
Friday Links: What Even Is Control Edition
“’The fish rots from the head.’ Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Authority’ Second week of October—how spooked are […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Hauntings Edition
“‘This house is haunted,’ Claire says. ‘I know if is,’ the babysitter says. ‘I used to live here.’” – Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat” First of all, Brendan and I […]
Friday Links: Annihilation Edition
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Annihilation’ […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Monsters Edition
“In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.” – opening […]
Friday Links: Keep Reading Your Friends Edition
“cops & landlords know / where to buy. but the past is // what you make of it & the future, / the future does not need // to echo […]
TEASER: Behind With Knife
“The morning they found the body…the bus was quiet.” – Brendan Johnson and Chris Corlew, ‘Behind With Knife’ In the two years since Brendan and I launched Lazy & Entitled, […]
Friday Links: Re-Read Your Friends, Fuck ICE, and Free Palestine Edition
“A group of monsters / should be called // a possibility” – Chloe N. Clark, “If I were a monster” This week and next week are devoted to friends! Next […]
Sub-subgenre Slam! Monsters Who Act Like Slashers Edition
“That’s not all! Because if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all!” – Ripley, ‘Aliens’ Right away, you should be warned that there won’t be […]