Author Archives
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EVIL IN TECHNICOLOR: FORGIVENESS IS WARM LIKE A TEAR ON THE CHEEK by STINA LEICHT (excerpt)
An exclusive excerpt of Stina Leicht’s brilliant haunted house story, FORGIVENESS IS WARM LIKE A TEAR ON THE CHEEK, from EVIL IN TECHNICOLOR! (Coming soon on October 1, 2020!) Secretive and brooding, Maufrais House squatted atop the hill like a… Read More ›
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EVIL IN TECHNICOLOR Interview with STINA LEICHT!
In preparation for the exciting new anthology, EVIL IN TECHNICOLOR, coming out on October 1, of this year, we had an opportunity to sit down with Stina Leicht, author of the acclaimed Malorum Gates series, and the forthcoming feminist space… Read More ›
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Reviewing a Book and Movie About Ending Things
Ian Reid’s book is something that people have both loved and despised. You see, the ending is going to be polarizing. Talking about the book is a challenge because the last twenty pages or so is quite different from what… Read More ›
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‘In the Tall Grass’ Bends and Twists and Horrifies
With summer slowly winding down, and autumn swift approaching, I find myself drawn to films that hearken to the season of fear. The skies are darker, now. The wind blows harder. The pumpkins come in, with their notorious spices. It’s… Read More ›
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Paul Jessup’s August Short Story Roundup
How long have we been in lockdown now? It feels like an eternity, it feels like this has become a new normal and the world before, the world that existed when we could walk freely outside, hug each other, laugh… Read More ›
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Animal City, Animal Catastrophes – on TALKING ANIMALS by Joni Murphy
The concept of TALKING ANIMALS is sold to us as a modern, urban ANIMAL FARM, but I don’t think this is a fair comparison to the author, whose work is far more elliptical and expressive and posits an entire universe… Read More ›
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A stilted and broken future full of stilted and broken people: UPLOAD on Amazon Prime
I have spent too much of my reading energy, of late, hunched over edits on a forthcoming title. When my eyes hurt, and my kid is asleep, and the house is mostly quiet, I may stop and try to recharge… Read More ›
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Star Trek: Discovery’s tech makes no sense, and is jarring in the world of Trek.
I don’t want to sit here and play arm-chair quarterback with the extreme challenge of constructing a useful and entertaining multi-part narrative set in the well-known and well-traveled Star Trek universe that would somehow manage to pay homage to the… Read More ›
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Paul Jessup’s July Short Story Roundup!
Oh boy where did the month ago? Is it time for another monthly short story roundup? Well, I guess it is. This month has a been a strange month, for certain, but then again all months have been strange months… Read More ›
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“Am I Sick, or a Saint?” UNDONE refuses to answer its own questions
The beautifully-rendered vision of San Antonio, animated by UNDONE, an Amazon Prime original, is a lush and sweeping and sublime thing, and revels in a kind of ambiguity that is upended by the very work it does creating its own… Read More ›