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etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney
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Pied-à-Terror
Prefer to listen to this post? There is no more important location in horror fiction than the house. The geometry of surfaces that creates an inside where only outside once was, subject to the decay of time like a human body, able to be loved, often to be feared: the haunted house. Tourists, as I […]
Continue ReadingMission Elapsed Time: 20:00:21:06:42:40
This month both my personal blog, Ascent Stage, and my Flickr account turn 20 years old. I’ve gone back through all of it — 862 posts, 30,558 photos. Other than endemic linkrot, an unfortunate smattering of Flash-based content, and services whose embed functions have crapped out (looking at you Flickr video, YouTube, and Google Maps), […]
Continue ReadingUndead Mockingbird
Prefer to listen to this post? “It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” we’re told by Atticus Finch, in the novel title-dropped in that line. Now, think back to your 8th grade self and try to remember why it’s a sin in his opinion. It isn’t because it’s a pretty bird; Atticus says flatly “Shoot […]
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