The Girls
By Emma Cline
Koji A. Dae
The Girls
By Emma Cline
(Or how to maximize your reading time when your life is a dumpster of chaos) What books do you want to read? I am not a fast reader or a big reader, and I’ve never been. I read anywhere from 6-12 books a year. That’s it. For a writer, that’s not a lot, and for […]
I’m trying to figure out how relationship beats work for negative relationship arcs… got any resources?
In what ways do you communicate online? In my heart, there will always be three critical moments of online communication that shaped my life: ICQ, Deadjournal, and Tribe. In the years since these things came and went, things have changed — we’ve moved on from longform to tweets. Then twitter imploded. Facebook was an amazing […]
I woke up this morning to some exciting news: Casual has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. What followed was a few hours of shock and excitement and a whole lot of not working at work. (Sorry, I’ll make up for it). Followed by a lot of anxious “how do I say thank […]
*Originally published in Daily Science Fiction in 2020, audio originally created by The Centropic Oracle. Behind the observation glass, James pinches Tanya. Her tender skin turns bright red. It’ll turn into yet another bruise. James watches his sister cry, I watch James, and the doctor watches me. “Isn’t it risky?” I don’t take my eyes […]
The River
Flannery O’Conner
Book one for this whole cult examination is Katee Robert’s The Devil’s Daughter. To be perfectly honest, this wouldn’t usually be my first book when doing a deep dive into the literary imagination. It is a procedural romance, and it fits fairly squarely in the more traditional “trust authority, cults are bad” positioning of these […]
Intro to cults in literature part II: genre expectations and what I’m looking for in my readings.
As I transition away from my serial killer obsession and into the world of cults, I decided to read one final book: The Surviving Girls by Katee Robert. I am a huge Katee Robert fan, but mostly for the Dark Olympus series. I didn’t even know she had this series of procedural romance (is that […]