VISIONS: Excerpts from The Infinite Prison by Matt Seneca
January 22, 2024
I have seen the fruit of man’s desire to live at all costs. Death and more death to all living things. But now a reckoning awakes.
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X-R-A-Y SPECS: Toys (1992)
January 19, 2024
In fact, my experience watching Popeye is what this film most reminded me of: the feeling of alarm, then dismay, and then the slow death of acceptance.
HOOPS THESE DAYS by John Pinto
January 17, 2024
The veteran killed the karaoke machine, just yanked the plug out the back and shoved the whole unit over, which was outrageous and way better than calling the cops. For three whole seconds, I felt like a winner.
LENGTH OR GIRTH OR BOTH: An Interview with Gwen E. Kirby
January 12, 2024
As for the demon novel, yes, I am dancing with that devil, so we’ll see what happens. But I hope to write short stories for as long as I’m writing.
BLADE OF GRASS by Mason Koa
January 10, 2024
Almost breathlessly, he raved to me that he had done it: He had separated himself from nature once and for all. I pointed out that we ate from nature before a light flickered in his eyes and I cupped my hand over my mouth.
TRANSMISSIONS: Agitator
January 5, 2024
Podcasting has forever cured me of being precious about writing time or having writer’s block. There’s so much commitment in podcasting, I’ve learned it doesn’t matter if I don’t feel like it or whatever, the time to do it is the time to do it.
THE SECRET TO A LONG LIFE by Kevin Grauke
January 3, 2024
Scientists have theories about why this happens, but I’ve got one of my own: our brain wants us to remember our horrible moments most clearly.
2023 STAFF PICKS
December 31, 2023
I have rewatched Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake at least a dozen times and it’s never been beaten, although Cosmatos’ Mandy came really close.
THE UNDERCURRENT OF DEATH: An Interview with Julian Tepper
December 29, 2023
Early readers have already told me that this is a novel about coming to New York as an artist and what it takes to succeed. Believe it or not, I wasn’t thinking about that all too much.
JOHN JACOBS by Conor Truax
December 27, 2023
To the conscious Cartwrights, the deer warnings were novelties. The yellow on the signs was not invented. The deer recognized it as the sun.