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Bury Your Gays (Literally): How The Haunting of Bly Manor Uses and Subverts the Trope
Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, the anthology series follow-up to the popular The Haunting…
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A Paean to Otherness: How Shirley Jackson Makes the Supernatural a Safe Haven
I saw myself and my sister in Merricat and Constance – two sisters from a deeply…
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The Gender Binary of Directors and Editors: A Retrospective Look into The Twilight Saga
Crisp, icy air fills our lungs, whispering, pulling us inward into the fauna-choked landscape of Forks,…
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Read Your Fear: Short Stories to Get You into the Halloween Spirit
My year-round default pastime of choice is reading horror fiction. Thus, you can imagine my excitement…
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Four Sci-Fi Novels to Help Reimagine the World Around Us
In the introduction to her groundbreaking sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le…
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Queer Romances to Keep You Company in Quarantine
With a long stretch of quarantine behind us and at least a few months of virtual…
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The Ethics of Writing Trauma – from the author of “Please, be Sensitive” in Issue 40
In my story, I supplied characters that cared for my character and asked questions when she…
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Let’s Talk about Inclusion
For much of my young adult life, I had a secret. A secret that carried a…
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On McSweeney’s Publishing, The Genius of Miriam Toews and Jonathan Plombon, and The Use of Humor as a Gateway into Difficult Subject Matter
If you’re fortunate enough to have been one of my victims over the past few months,…
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Perfume
Last semester, I took a class on the forgotten literary art of the epistolary. To drive…
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