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Playing with my cats instead of writing OR reading
Just moved to Atlanta! Living just NE of the city - what should I do? Most importantly, what should I eat?
I just listened to Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw (narrated by Isaiah Nichols). Well, to be precise, I just listened to Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw (narrated by Isaiah Nichols) twice. I love her writing and voice so much that I get lost in the cadence, the rhythm, the words she choose and the way they sound when they’re read aloud that I forget to comprehend their meaning.
As heartbreaking and horrific as Our Cut of Salt is, it is also full of love, seen from these women for each other and their lost homeland. And, importantly for this horror-lover, it has some legitimately haunted house-style scary moments.
Listening to Tales from the Territory narrated by the author Travis Baldree was like catching up with old friends. I love settling into some cozy fantasy for my horror reading palate cleanser, and five new stories set in the world of Legends & Lattes were a welcome early autumn retreat.
Every time I read something written by Eric LaRocca, from short story to novel, I wonder what I've gotten myself into.
I listened to the audiobook of Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist (narrated perfectly by Mhairi Morrison) several weeks ago as we moved our household 250 miles south to Atlanta which meant I was in the perfect mindset to relate to Tamsin, though the character is 20 years younger and lives an ocean away from me.
Though horror is usually my thing, one sci-fi trope I love is time travel, and, like any fan of time travel, I've asked the question, "Would you go back in time and kill Hitler?"
LITTLE DOORS, written and directed by Anthony Oberbeck, is my favorite of the Fantastic Fest films I had a chance to watch, and it’s the one that’s hardest to write about.
JOLLYFACE, written and directed by Justin Floyd says big things about race and white privilege in a big way.
KYLGOR IN THE GRISLY ABYSS, directed by Mason Newton DeRushie, is a sword and sorcery horror which follows Kylgor the Conqueror and his barbarian band who successfully seek vengeance by beheading the king who ravaged their lands and murdered their people. With the king’s army on their heels during their escape, they and their enemies fall into a large abyss.
DEATH HAS NO MASTER, written and directed by Jorge Thielen Armand, is grim - a stark portrait of colonialism in Venezuela.
