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I moved out of my parents’ house five years ago. Finally pushed out of the nest despite financial strife from the sheer stress of being packed unendingly into a box with the rest of my family with no escape, not allowed my daily reprieve of the college campus for the exploding pandemic. So in one…
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We moved. See blog post from about a week ago. Our new apartment overlooks open pasture and a wide, shallow lake and features a balcony that you can watch the local prairie dog colony from. Well, if you’re human. If you’re a dog, you can listen to them bark but I don’t think you can…
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I am not alone in my inescapable inundation with the problems plaguing our world. Every day, I lament an earlier time — not that the past was more peaceful or serene, but that concerns were far more local. In the modern age, you’re expected to keep your finger on the pulse of every national scandal,…
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This Delicious Death is a young adult horror novel by Kayla Cottingham following four girls struggling with their ghoulish urges to eat people. Each of these girls is also queer. What follows will have spoilers — read at your own risk. The central conceit of this book revolves around an event we only ever see…
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We moved house. Apartment. Whatever. In the process of unpacking right now, and I’ve booted up my computer for the first time in a week to check a packed email inbox and revive my internet presence. My first book is off to beta readers, except for one copy that I moved with just in case…
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I often describe myself as pagan. I do this because it’s far quicker than explaining my actual views on religion and divinity as it exists within both the modern and ancient worlds and how those two things are connected with an intimacy that the vast majority of people will not honestly admit to. To me,…
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I’ve owned a mask or two. Bust them out on a regular basis, from my plastered-on customer service smile to the resting bitch face I use to ward off conversation on the bus. Having a whole holiday centered around the masking of identity, the dressing up and welcoming of the strange and unusual, is right…
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Full disclosure, I’m not even that far in the book yet. I couldn’t spoil it for you, even if I wanted to. There’s this sequence at the beginning — not the very beginning, maybe 50 pages in — that describes the most common ways for werewolves to die in the modern world. Jones takes the…
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I finished Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus a couple days ago. It’s a book I was looking forward to, given how prominent rabies is in our culture and how intensely its intertwined in horror fiction and folklore — ranging from parallels with vampire and werewolf lore to influencing the behavior…
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Back in January, I coalesced to my partner and agreed to a pet I never gave much of a thought to keeping: birds. So, in the midst of a brutal cold snap (-10F), we went and acquired two parakeets from Petco. I know nothing about birds, about keeping birds, about bird breeders. I trusted him…
