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Skeeter

Read [an archived version of] "Skeeter" -- a short-short "clickable" story posted to [the now defunct] Tapestry. I wrote this goofy thing by messing around on an ipad. Tapestry files were "sequential" stories. To read, click on the screen to forward page by page.
September 6, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inWeird Sites of the Month

My Favorite Dexter Remakes and Riffs

I'm a big follower of the Showtime TV series Dexter, currently airing its final season. For the past year I've been rescreening the entire run, posting a running series of notes to twitter under hashtag #dexternotes (see the archive in The Nest), and my next personal reading project is to catch up with Lindsay's Dexter book series (the program is a fascinating study in adaptation, as it departs wildly from the books) in preparation for the upcoming release of a new title, ironically called Dexter's Final Cut (releasing end of August 2013 on Kindle and in mid-Sept in hardcover). As…
August 12, 2013Posted inWeird Sites of the Month1 Comment
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Onward Christian Scanners

Imagine if Cronenberg had written and directed The Exorcist. In it, Father Damien Karras is not a psy- chiatrist but a psychic, capable of reading thoughts and moving objects with merely his mind. This superpower, he believes, is the Power of Christ, and it compels him to study the art of exorcism under Father Merrin, who trains him to become a "Scanner" -- a psyche-soldier in the Christian Army, capable of not only sensing a sinner's guilt and truly knowing the nature of their crimes, but also able to circumvent confession altogether and directly absolve them, should they genuinely regret…
August 5, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inAmbulations

Photos from DogCon 2013

Some visuals from Raw Dog Screaming Press' community gathering in Columbus, OH, Aug 2-3, 2013. I did not manage to snap too many, because I was far too busy having a blast. For now, you can find things on the Raw Dog Screaming Press facebook page, and I'm sure more recordings will make their way online soon.                    
August 3, 2013Posted inAmbulations