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if all the world's a stage, where's the proscenium arch?

or, reacting to the stories of Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco

Mar 31

opening the voice box

or, reacting to the stories of Thomas Ligotti's Grimscribe

Mar 19

a tremulous tenor in the choir of sleeping grotesques

reacting to the stories comprising Thomas Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Mar 7

September 2023

All he could remember was that it existed. It was a scrap of something, a fragment. Little more than a paragraph or two. Written by a famous man…

Sep 28, 2023

January 2023

Autoportrait (fragment)

or: (with apologies to Edouard Levé)

Jan 6, 2023

December 2022

Family and Other Horrible Creatures

or, Aunt Nadine; or, "It," part the first

Dec 12, 2022

Things I Know Very Little About

or, I Am a Terrible Storyteller

Dec 8, 2022

or, how to find vertigo

Dec 1, 2022

November 2022

When the Will-o'-the-Wisp Won't

On the writing of a story that fails to be.

Nov 27, 2022

April 2022

The Heat Death of the Universe

The beginning of a fiction, told from memory, about a birthday.

Apr 15, 2022

three small stories

Start with the feeling, end with the despair.

Apr 13, 2022

March 2022

the anatomy of a poem

The anatomy of a poem is such that it can be plucked and stripped right down to its tiny, fragile little bones. While you have a poem on the table, it…

Mar 27, 2022

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