The morning they found the body—blood dried on his throat, up the sides of his too-high collar, red spill down white shirt, slumped in the alley to suggest a mugging […]
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 […]
Friday Links: Why Are People The Way They Are Edition
“You tried to tell your story to people who didn’t know how to listen.” – Carmen Maria Machado, ‘In The Dream House’ As a reader and a writer, I have […]
Subgenre Slam! Slashers Edition
“It’s almost October, though, and horror is my religion.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘My Heart Is A Chainsaw’ Welcome to Subgenre Slam!, a column series I will start today, break […]
Friday Links: Exile In The Swamp Edition
“As soon as they left the river and entered the bayou, the landscape grew denser, twitchier, closer, as if the trees had bent over to give them a sniff.” – […]
11 Chicago Books You Should Read
“I say I’m from Chicago and / folks get excited. I mean, they / light up like they got gossip to tell.” – Taylor Byas, “You from ‘Chi-raq?’” First off, […]
Friday Links: Chicago Over Everything Edition
“It’s one thing to know a place on paper, but it’s never any good to be totally out of place with no sense of the turf you’re in…” – Theodore […]