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OTTO:     “Intense!” MILLER:  “The life of a repo man is always intense.” –Repo Man  The American West is in some ways the ideal setting to explore contests of power, the United States having literally taken shape through the subjugation of this giant landmass west of the Mississippi River in a relatively short amount…

If you can forgive the trite tactic of opening an essay with a definition, you might be interested to know that audition, which we mostly use to mean trying out for some sort of performance, earlier meant to be heard in a court of law and, before that, the very act of hearing. In Pip…

Hi Hazel, thanks so much for chatting with me; I just read your recent eco-horror novella Reef Mind and thought it was sick. In the book, the land is invaded and colonised by coral, which has migrated out of the ocean and either killed or assimilated most of humanity. On a broad level, how much…

(warning: this article contains heavy spoilers for Armored Core VI’s ‘Liberator’ route) The V. II Snail boss fight in 2023’s Armored Core VI: The Fires of Rubicon is one of the more interesting boss fights I’ve encountered. It employs game design to directly communicate character growth, an idea I find both fascinating and highly effective….

Christopher Barzak’s A Voice Calling is a novella about a haunted house; it is, more specifically, about the community haunted by the presence of a haunted house. The narrative voice, fascinatingly, is in the first person plural, which occasionally devolves into disagreements, collective selfishness, and arch judgment, much as a small town itself might. This…

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One of our girls is in trouble. Oh, it seems normal, doesn’t it? Safe, even. In that little apartment of hers. Lightly faded floral prints and autumn-hued neutral tones for a madhouse dayroom simulacrum of calm. A wall-to-wall shag carpet to muffle any sounds of domestic discord from the other tenants. Unbroken by turquoise and…

jokes The surgeon asked me not to move my eyes. He was specific. He told me if I moved them, the red dot would lacerate my retina. I wondered if all doctors shot threats at their patients during surgeries. He talked a lot; he giggled like a little girl when he told me the red…

An old-fashioned auto-V glides to a stop at the embarkation point, its curved roof gleaming wet in the drizzle like the carapace of a beetle. The passenger door slides open with a faint hydraulic hiss, and the courtesy light illuminates the bare black interior — but not the face of the man inside. Us slide…

Bristol sky at night so humid it was like breathing through plastic, but Ronan had to get Tripp alone, had to get these people out of his van. Too hot now, in-out and in-out for a cigarette. Smoke, blown out towards the twitching matrix of light that was the city skyline, and a neon pulse…