“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices…American outrage is always for show.” – Percival Everett, ‘The Trees’
A List Of Things I Did During The Last Trump Admin (And What I Plan On This Time Around)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” – James Baldwin, interviewed
Friday Links: We Need To Keep Reading Edition
“Caracas’ preferred modes are ‘infernal’ and ‘nightmarish.’ By day it torments and by night it terrifies.” – Héctor Torres, ‘The Relentless City’
The Class War Is Here
“She knew better than to envision any further: the future was a room with a warp on the floor.” – Tiffany Morris, “Night in the Chrysalis”
Friday Links: What's More Horrifying Than A Death Foretold Edition
“…he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first.” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’
Do You Like Scary Movies?
“And if any of them knew horror, they’d know you let the dead rest.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘The Angel of Indian Lake’
Friday Links: Horror Poetry Edition
“Here the snow begins in your / postcards. // & black apples arrive / in the arms of a girl” – Joshua Marie Wilkinson, “The Book Of The Umbrella”
What Do You Like About Horror?
“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘My Heart Is A Chainsaw’
Friday Links: Th3 Night Jad3 Dani3ls Cam3 Hom3 3Dition
“If you stand there and watch the evil, keep it in check, like, then it can’t come across.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘The Angel of Indian Lake’
Liner Notes: if not a river
“I can learn to be blank / saying I to abyss / in darkness my delicate “I am” / not in echo” – Dan Beachy-Quick, ‘This Nest, Swift Passerine’