Flintstones: Meet the even-more-modern Stone Age family
Reading the first volume of DC’s short-lived Flintstones by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh got me thinking about how you keep an adaptation faithful (or don’t) when it comes out 46 …
Category: Fiction
Drive back the dark in 2023!
The sun cycle is tilting as it always does and light is increasing again. In 2023, let’s keep driving darkness back in all the ways that we can. While I …
So why Hammett?
I really like the cover for this collection —— but why pick Dashiell Hammett to select the stories (or stick his name on the cover even if he didn’t)? While …
‘Colliding Atoms’
So we’re sitting in Rimsky’s, waiting for the rest of our friends to show up, and Randolph is telling us about his band. God, I hate his band. “When we …
‘The Exploration of a Foreign Place’
Eyelids flutter and flicker. Pain spreads from back to front and back again — waves licking a distant shore. Eyes. Dance. Luminous blobs. She. Reaches. Out. Pain slams into her, …
‘Imaginary Friends’
The December rain was pattering on the pavement. George Grover sat quietly in his booth, watching the late afternoon grayness slowly change to black. He was seated right by a …
‘The New World’
Go. Down an escarpment of limestone to the creek bed. “Go,” a whisper in his ears. Thunder in the background. Wagnerian. Hardscrabble hands on smooth rocks. Rushing water washing mud …