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XRAY SPECS: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

October 20, 2023

This film is a Freudian’s dream. The way Cheryl constantly offers him milk isn’t exactly subtle.

WHATEVER by Emma Estridge

October 18, 2023

She emails me a PDF of instructions. The first is Learn to sit quietly with yourself. I feel that we have already skipped a step.

I WROTE IT ONLY FOR YOU: An Interview with Joshua Mohr

October 13, 2023

At its essence, this story is about existential amnesia. What do we need to remember? What do we want to remember? And what’s the difference between them?

HEATERS by Brett Biebel

October 11, 2023

There was a fence, and there were holes in it, and she looked like a lizard sometimes, a shitload of speed coiled inside some slender frame.

AN EERILY RECURRENT CREDENZA: An Essay on APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING by Dave Fitzgerald

October 6, 2023

No matter how much paper we push around in this life, or the next, or inside the crumbling filing systems of our own minds, the termites are coming for us all.

THREE by Amanda Gersh

October 4, 2023

I used to say I couldn’t travel because I didn’t have the time, but now I’ve got all the time in the world because the world isn’t using it.

SEX IS SECONDARY: An Interview with Matthew Binder

September 29, 2023

In retrospect, it’s obvious to me that I’m writing about my desire to feel a part of something greater than myself. I know that’s an impossibility, however.

PORCELAIN by Nicholas Claro

September 27, 2023

The couch is more of a loveseat. It hardly seats the two of us. On it is the pillow and blanket I’ve been using. This is the longest conversation we’ve had in over a week.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: All-American Murder

September 22, 2023

All-American Murder isn’t bad, but it’s almost an extraterrestrial product, a movie made for humans by something that has no relationship to the physical universe.

THE CARRIAGE ROOM by Mary Ann McGuigan

September 20, 2023

He returned home silent, even more sullen. I asked him about Mrs. Marra once, but he looked at me as if all memories, good or bad, had been erased.