Today’s short story you absolutely ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY have to read: “Better You Believe,” by Carole Johnstone, first published in HORROR LIBRARY VOLUME 6, author and publication both previously unknown to me. It is the opening story of Ellen Datlow’s THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOL 10, first tale I’ve read in that collection. The […]
Last night’s exercise in divine strangeness on Netflix Disk: DAVE MADE A MAZE (2017), about a 30-year-old dude without much in the way of accomplishment who, when his girlfriend leaves him alone for a weekend, fills the living room with a cardboard maze made out of old boxes. The problem is: by the time she […]
Originally Published on Facebook 20 December 2016. A quarter of a century ago, one of the first editors to buy my fiction noted that my recent submissions had been feeling awfully “safe” — more professional, but timid, in a way my earliest stories had not been. The question: “When you wrote those first stories, were […]
