Fiction/Nonfiction: fiction
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The Holding on of Letting Go
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A Story in Which Something Happens
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Wife in Reverse
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Collections
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A House of Noise
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Review: The Hands are Coming Too
A review of a fictional film that sounds a bit like Evil Dead. It’s clever and funny: ‘The Hands are Coming Too.’ (2023) is the unneeded sequel to 80’s box office flop turned reluctant cult classic ‘The Feetening.’
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Good Night, Sleep Tight
About the lasting effects of a traumatic and puzzling childhood episode. I hadn’t read anything by Evenson before, but the atmosphere and use of repetition in that story is incredible. I’ll seek out more for sure.
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Everything Got Worse
The earth-moving machines had long sputtered out and all the workers were eating or sleeping so I got bored and decided to run off to explore the woods behind our construction site. Tall pines and old oak trees covered the floor in dry needles and acorns and when the crunching stopped underneath my shoeless feet,…
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The Husband Stitch
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You Work in the Worst Diner in Existence That’s Always Open for Business
This is a postapocalyptic horror comedy if that’s allowed to be a thing. It’s wild, gruesome and hilarious. I don’t want to spoil it, but it contains the sentence, “A man asks for an eyeball in his large glass of gasoline served with a bendy straw.”