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Stories are Delicious: “The Pulse of Memory” by Beth Dawkins
Short stories about a singularity where we upload our consciousness into a computer are not in short supply. Will Ludwigsen wrote a good, humorous one not too long ago and even popular television shows like The 100 have played with… Read More ›
Alien Mercy: Never Now Always by Desirina Boskovitch
Drifting signifiers of sounds and shapes attach to words and attach to meanings. There is a gap between one person’s schema of meaning and another’s. Inside this gap, weird fiction nestles down and wrestles with confusion. In the case of… Read More ›
On Reading Lovecraft, or No Longer Reading Lovecraft
Nathanial Hawthorne was probably a racist. Frankly, how could he not be? He was living in a time and place and culture where racist ideas were widely held and widely accepted. In his work, there is a distinct sense that… Read More ›
The Walking Dead’s Trail Goes Cold in Season 9
(Contains Spoilers) Most people stopped watching The Walking Dead after Glenn got all Hank Aaroned-on by Negan. It was a simple fact that the show went too far and that they were making way for the worst villain yet after… Read More ›
An Interview with Jamie Mason
Jamie Mason is the author of several books, including KEZZIE OF BABYLON, THE BOOK OF ASHES and GAVIN’S WAR. He has worked variously as a think-tank analyst, a business manager, a professional musician and a private investigator. Now semi-retired and… Read More ›
The Future is Always For the Ones Who Own the Past: Prime Meridian by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
One of the hardest things to think about is how economies shape the dreams of our children. We cannot do anything if we cannot imagine the possibility of it. Some writers dream up bright, shining towers of hope in the… Read More ›