It’s the tenth month of March 2020. It’s Fuckuary, as Roxane Gay called it. We’re avoiding the plague, we’ve lived through insurrection and inauguration and now we get to painfully […]
2020 Gothic
You missed trash pickup last week. This week’s pickup has been called on account of poor air quality. You circle the Arby’s dumpster, finding it unguarded. The Arby’s is boarded […]
Antler Review: Last Great Reads of 2020
Before we burn this mother down: I want to tell you the last few things that I loved this year. These are the best reads of November and December, 2020. […]
Eligibility 2020
Friends, it has been a long and hellish year. I feel much older on this end of it than I did on the other. Despite the fight and the isolation […]
Thankful
I got my first period on Thanksgiving Day. I was really young. So young, in fact, that I didn’t consider that that might be what was wrong with me. I […]
Antler Review: October Spooks and Surprises
Right on time for this spookiest of seasons, I read this excellent article about Carmilla, which is the best vampire novel you’ve never read. The other one is The Gilda […]
Elegy for an Advertisement
I drove into San Francisco in June or July for the first time since the order to shelter in place had begun. I remember the bizarre emptiness of both the […]
Antler Review: September Sure Shots
The best stuff I read in September: I loved American Movie by K-Ming Chang for its quick, clear, queer fabulousness. If you just want to try on the […]
They’re Made Out of Meat
My freshman English teacher loved short stories. I read them before then; I hunted copies of F&SF on waiting room tables and at libraries. I read OMNI and I dreamed […]
Tiny Nightmares
Flash is the hardest thing to write. It’s much easier to tell a story in 50k words than it is in 50. A fully developed narrative in less than 1k […]