Tag: Essay
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Days Before: an Essay on Representation of a Time Before Change
Title’s a bit of a mouthful, eh? First questions first: “the hell are you talking about, J? What time before change? Are you high?” Not right now, no, but thanks for asking. It’s Pride month. June is, and today is the last day of June; ironically, my local Pride parade isn’t held until early July…
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Essay: On “Her Cigarettes”
If you haven’t yet read the poem, I would suggest you do so first. It can be found in its entirety on this website, at this link. This is a poem – and an essay – about grief. About family, and how it can be complicated; how history can be, or maybe even must be.…
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Review: “Blind Spots”, by Cara Nox (Astrophobia anthology)
Let’s start off by getting one thing straight: Blind Spots is very good at what it does. It is very good at spreading a slow, underlying unease that is easy to ignore but difficult or impossible to miss in the long run. I really liked this story. Length: 4800 words Genre: Horror Author: Cara Nox…