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I've a ton of new followers recently, so I'd like to say: Hello! I'm a writer, editor, and educator who believes that experimental literature can be as fun as it's demanding. If you're ever looking for book recs -or even my own work- check out my website!
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Happy Halloween to all! In the spirit of the holiday, I'd like to share two horror stories that I've published.
If you're looking for something terrifying and strange to celebrate the day, try these.
Try my cybergothic horror story, SLIP SLOP. It's a nightmarish tale about a debt collector who harvests organs from people who fall into extreme poverty, paid in turn with amphetamines. Graphic novelist Henry Crane even drew art for the piece!
tinyurl.com/ym4hek5u
Also try my Miami Gothic story, Aventura, a story told by an acerbic savant child with a death drive. His recollection of Miami is a fever, a violence revolving between and around people, until it takes the form of a murderous ape rushing towards you.
propagule.co/fiction/aventur…
It was well worth the wait! Season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a City of God-esque recording of a few people dammed to die and in search of meaning. The dub cast performed wonderfully.
It's the closest the genre has felt to Delany's short stories, melancholic and meditative.
It's the month of Halloween, my favorite holiday! I love the return of Fall with its transformative, melancholic moods and the lurking chance of terror. Every October, I try to reread, rewatch, replay, and relisten to select spooky works.
Maybe you might enjoy trying them too?
ALT The Black Cathedral, The Twenty Days of Turin, The Changeling, How German is It?, The Hole, Ambrose Bierce's Ghost Stories, Dream Story, Hurricane Season
ALT The Thing, Evil Dead 2, Midnighg Mass, Possession, The Wailing, Under The Skin, Paranoia Agent, Ghostwatch
ALT Look Outside, RE4, Darkwood, SH3, Lisa: The Painful, Cry of Fear, System Shock 2, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
ALT Giles Corey, Diamonda Galas, Boris, Clippng, Foetus, Soft Machine, Exuma, Sonic Youth
If I had to pick my most personal nine novels, I'd have to frame it around those novels which either provided a vocabluary for how I thought, or such violent "eureka!" moments that radically transformed my approach to writing.
How wonderful that such lists continue to change.
Another weekend begun with my top 9! Since I first heard album, they've remained requirements on my every mp3 player.
And specifically France The Mute's Japanese pressing, which includes its titular track.
Picking my top nine games is much harder than choosing among my favorite books! But if I had to curate, I would do so based on those games which I try to return to at least once each year.
So many hours spent in simulations which draw further satisfaction from me each time.
ALT Resident Evil 4, Knights of the Old Republic II, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Bloodbourne, Nier, Rain World, Look Outside, Pathologic 2, System Shock 2
... and if I had the chance to expand that list further, I would! My artistic education has always been modular and multimedia.
As our lives and experiences grow more complex, I appreciate an art form that comprehends our world in fantastical, ruthilarious fashion.
ALT Disco Elysium, Personal 5: Royal, Lisa: The Painful, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, Deus Ex, Silent Hill 2, Killer 7, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Ultrakill
I've been asked a few times in the last month about books I've read and their context. Friends found it interesting, so I thought others might too.
I'd like to talk about the best college class I ever took: The Blues Odyssey!
The course clearly meant a lot to me! Taken in my freshman year, such lessons informed my own writing, the poems and fictions I wrote and the theories which invigorated me.
The course taught me how to travel the world and listen in order to write my honors thesis.
Everyone please share congratulations to @DbDjamel for winning the prestigious Ville Grillet residency, which will send my dear friend to Lyon among the great living artists of French language art.
Djamel will be a giant in world literature, get ready!
villagillet.net/articles/dja…
The next great writer is here! Djamel Bouchenaki's debut novel comes out next year, but you can read an excerpt now at @MinorLits. He writes a simmering, musical descent into fury like Rachid Boudjedra, Mathias Ènard, and John Hawkes before him.
Get to know this future titan!
