With the start of October comes the start of spooky season! I’m not really into spooky season except to give myself a whole month of mystery and thriller books to read (sometimes light horror too). For this month, I have 9 books set aside to read and bonus, I own a copy of each! The … Continue reading Spooky Reading List | October 2025| Sorry, I'm Booked
Happy October! For those in the northern hemisphere, we’re in Fall, my favorite time of the year! And with Fall, comes the start of cozy weather perfect for curling up with a book. And with O…| Sorry, I'm Booked
The hum of his rig filled the room, a white noise louder than the city outside. Ty slumped in his chair, knuckles ghosting over the keyboard, eyes locked on a Discord server buzzing with avatars more familiar to him than his own family. He hadn’t looked away from the glow all night. A sharp ping […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Ask anybody in our little town about Miss Urleen, and they’ll tell you she ain’t right in the head. But me? I know she just lives in a world all her own. Four summers back, I got called to fix her air-condition. Hottest season I can remember, and that old unit kept me out to […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Laura whipped her aging SUV into the midday traffic. Two hours- that was all the time she had between shifts to grab Cadence and Josiah, feed them, and get them settled in before she threw herself back into the dinner rush. Damn that new management company! Her apartment building changed hands, and overnight the rent […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Had the Whipswitch not stolen the source of Clan Calder’s fire, the thatched huts that dotted the river’s edge as it cut through the canyon below would have been alight with hearth-fires- however, this not being the case, the flat fields to the left and the right looked desolate in the twilight. Neither the feigned […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
She hadn’t meant to fall asleep in the attic. But here she was- still wrapped in the old quilt that had been their bedspread back when they were tiny and shared a double bed. Back before he made this attic room his lair and locked her out of every aspect of his world. The bright […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
She cataloged every scar with meticulous precision. The lies, the disappearances, the nights she cried herself to sleep. Names circled, dates underlined, each painful moment catalogued. She blamed them all- every lover, every betrayal. But one night, while rereading the passages alone, the truth smacked her harder than any fist ever had- she’d been the […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Photo Courtesy of Dale Rogerson Detective Raymond almost tossed the crumpled coffee receipt, but the blue ink bleeding through from the backside stopped him. Flipping it over, he found a note scraw…| Thru Violet's Lentz
As I noted in my newsletter, the focus of this month’s blog post is about attending writing conferences. Your usual writing conference includes panels, author signings, special guest intervie…| Mindy Carlson
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “The last thing Evelyn Schwartz could remember was […]| Leah's Books
Wendell Berry has written a ninth Port William novel, and it is unlike any other in the set.| Front Porch Republic
Title: Can You Solve the Murder? Author: Antony Johnston Published: 5th June 2025, Bantam UK Status: Read October 2025 courtesy PenguinUK/ Netgalley ++++++++ My Thoughts: Can You Solve the Murder? is an entertaining interactive novel, not too dissimilar to the choose-your-own-adventure books which were popular when I was a child, where you are a detective … Continue reading Review: Can You Solve the Murder? By Antony Johnston| Book’d Out
Title: Selkie Author: Nataly Gruender Published: 12th August 2025, Grand Central Publishing Status: Read September 2025 courtesy Grand Central/Netgalley ++++++++ My Thoughts: Nataly Gruender imagines a tale drawing on Celtic and Norse folklore in her second book, Selkie. The stories of her kind have always fascinated Quinn, as sleek gray seal she lives in the … Continue reading Review: Selkie by Nataly Gruender| Book’d Out
Title: Eden Author: Mark Brandi Published: 25th June 2025, Hachette Australia Status: Read October 2025 courtesy Hachette ++++++++ My Thoughts: Though it can be read as a stand alone, Eden is also a powerful sequel of sorts to Mark Brandi’s award winning novel Wimmera, the story of two young boys and a shocking crime. After … Continue reading Review: Eden by Mark Brandi| Book’d Out
Title: Barren Cape Author: Michelle Prak Published: 2nd April 2025, Simon & Schuster Au Status: Read March 2025 courtesy S&S/Netgalley ++++++++ My Thoughts: Set in South Australia, Barren Cape is the sophomore novel from Australian thriller writer, Michelle Prak. After the lease on Mac’s flat is not renewed and she has exhausted both the good … Continue reading Review: Barren Cape by Michelle Prak| Book’d Out
Title: The Library of Lost Dollhouses Author: Elise Hooper Published: 1st April 2025, William Morrow Status: Read March 2025 courtesy William Morrow/Edelweiss ++++++++ My Thoughts: The Library of L…| Book’d Out
Local Woman Missing is a highly engrossing suspense novel that explores the disappearance of two seemingly unrelated people and the toll it takes on family and neighbors over a decade later. A cleverly engineered plot that provides several surprising twists makes this story a winner for me. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. As […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is Douglas Adams’ well-known and much lauded satirical science fiction novel. It follows the adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect who stowaway…| Book Thoughts from Bed
Police in China are arresting female authors of homosexual romance novels, in a widespread crackdown on the "boys love" fiction genre.| www.abc.net.au
A mechanick stands upon Manchester's bloodied field, where reform met violence, and receives a divine vision: his inventions might yet serve Heaven's purpose, elevating the poor through knowledge and skill, transforming mere machines into sacred instruments of deliverance and hope.| Vox Meditantis
A woman of vision retreats to the mountain wilderness, where solitude becomes her forge and revelation her hammer. Amidst news of war and famine, she contemplates her immortal self and the divine commission she would dare attempt - a calling that would transform her utterly.| Vox Meditantis
At a frontier crossroads in 1904, a British officer reflects on the sacred bonds of military brotherhood whilst news arrives from distant Manchuria. By firelight, he contemplates his severest vow and discovers that shared hardship forges men into something eternal.| Vox Meditantis
If you wanna take a hell-ride into central Kentucky, read Wes Browne’s newest novel, “They All Fall the Same.”| Southern Review of Books
1932, Minnesota — the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
This movie is long but earns the runtime by keeping you running through its entirety. A deep family backstory builds into a crescendo and then "goes kinetic" with methodical and punctuated motion. The car chase scene was reminiscent of Vertigo on speed - equally hypnotic and teeth-clenching - definitely the best sequence. Sen Penn is the driving force throughout: the protagonist is such only in name, and Penn's antagonist fascism is the real life of the second half. An incredible, physical pe...| Josh Beckman
There are lives that read like novels, and then there are lives that are novels. Bessie Head’s was both. Her story, beautifully captured through her writings and the many letters she left behind, is not just one of a gifted writer, but of a woman who built an enterprise of meaning in the face of…| rochemamabolo
Some people shine by reflecting what they’ve been given, like mirrors, they take directions, resources, or energy and aim it well. These are the reliable implementers, the ones who keep the flow moving. But then there are those rare ones who glow in the dark. Their light is not borrowed. It’s created. They don’t just…| rochemamabolo
I really had the best intentions to do all of my Short Story September reviews in September… but anyway, here I am in October (planning November reading) and thinking I ought to draw a line under last month. So, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry by Christine Sneed… There are ten … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. There are no categories this year, although participants are invited to start the month with a My Year in Novellas retrospective looking at any novellas read since last NovNov, and finish it with a New to My … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
Emily, an ordinary girl in New Jersey, strikes a bargain with nanites from outer space that changes her (7,000 words)| philo.gay
The novelist’s Happy Meal plotting serves up the same constituent parts over and over The post Is Dan Brown finished? appeared first on The Spectator World.| The Spectator World
People are trapped in yesterday’s memories and tomorrow’s plans.No one knows how to live in today anymore.The past is replayed, the future is bought and sold, but the present is ignored. Then someo…| And Miles to go before I sleep...
La proportion de femmes est faible dans ce secteur d’activité ; moins de missions leur sont confiées et elles travaillent plus souvent en équipe que les hommes – elles sont donc sous-représentées lorsque la fonction est octroyée à une seule personne. Tels sont les facteurs déterminants de cette disparité homme-femme dans la production audiovisuelle en […] L’article Des métiers en manque de parité dans la fiction audiovisuelle en Europe est apparu en premier sur La revue eur...| La revue européenne des médias et du numérique
Today’s my second visit with outstanding blogger, author, and supporter of the indie community: Sally Cronin. She’s drawn from my blog archives and shared one of my book review posts. These are all highly entertaining reads, and if you missed one or need another nudge, head over. While you’re there, you might check out Sally’s books. […]| Myths of the Mirror
Want to get new excerpts, musings, and more from The Bibliophile right away? Sign up for our weekly online newsletter here! *** Elaine Feeney’s latest novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, […] The post The Bibliophile: History is never truly in the past appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
Want to get new excerpts, musings, and more from The Bibliophile right away? Sign up for our weekly online newsletter here! *** Next week is the Canadian publication of Russell Smith’s novel Self Care, […] The post The Bibliophile: The Scorpion and the Frog appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
Want to get new excerpts, musings, and more from The Bibliophile right away? Sign up for our weekly online newsletter here! *** Elise Levine’s Big of You comes out next Tuesday, September 9 in Canada. […] The post The Bibliophile: “Arnhem” appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
It is early June and I leave the aircon on high. I am driving two and a half hours from the airport to Monzón, the hometown of my wife María. My mother-in-law Pilar is to be buried this afternoon. I only brought an overnight bag with me and wore my suit on the early flight. María has been in Monzón since the previous month for the deathbed vigils. I am going for the night and flying home tomorrow at 12 noon. María and I had it planned for months, years even. Fionn, our son, is being look...| The Stinging Fly
I was super excited when this book was selected by a clear majority in the Rose Book Club last month. Short listed for the Miles Franklin Award 2025, and set in the Adelaide Hills I thought I was going to be in for a treat! But no – I found this book as difficult and […]| Yarra Book Club
I was supposed to read Emma in July and I should now be reading Northanger Abbey, but my Austen plans have gone astray in the face of book club and Booker Prize. But after finishing The Names by Florence Knapp I discovered my Library has Emma on audio and it was available. As such Emma […]| Yarra Book Club
I have started to turn my thoughts to the 2025 Book Club Reading Challenge and the Shared Universe challenge across #28 and #29. I had planned to read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and then maybe Utopia Avenue given it was recommended to me by my partner, but in looking for more information on how […]| Yarra Book Club
John Banville is a great author, he has a finely tuned skill and is exceptionally talented. I therefore requested this novel as an Advance Readers Copy without hesitation. The description felt a little lighter than some of the Booker reads I have been recently doing, a little more thriller… Review: The book is a narration […]| Yarra Book Club
And here it is!! I had only 3 of these on my ‘love’ list – being ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ and ‘The Land in Winter’, along with ‘the Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ (chosen because I want to read it). But of my predicted list – I had 4, missing only ‘Flashlight‘ and I […]| Yarra Book Club
This book was chosen for the Yarra Book Club by Kay and I am so pleased she gave me an excuse to read it. I first came to know of the book when it was getting so many good reviews, and I thought it…| Yarra Book Club
4th October 2025, the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for Six Degrees of Separation–one of my favourite memes to participate in. Six Degrees of Separation is a monthly meme hosted by Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best. Inspired by the concept of ‘six degrees of separation’, originally set out…| Literary Potpourri
Mrs Pargeter (Melita to no one but her late husband) has always kept her distance from the shady businesses that her late husband was engaged in. The lifestyle it has set her up in is extremely comfortable, allowing her to be generous to those who need such generosity, and all of her husband’s old acquaintances […]| In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
Beth Cunningham has come to Oban, a coastal town in West Scotland, to start a new life, to finally put her past behind her. Opening The Wild Haggis Bookshop was a dream come true, but it quickly turns sour after the first meeting of her crime book club. THe meeting went perfectly fine, despite some […]| In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
A visit to the masjid for Jum'ah prayer takes a shocking turn, and Deek makes an unexpected visit. The post Moonshot [Part 24] – What Sustains The World appeared first on MuslimMatters.org.| MuslimMatters.org
Rania suffers an emotional breakdown, and Deek's relationship with his daughters goes downhill. The post Moonshot [Part 23] – The Man In The Mirror appeared first on MuslimMatters.org.| MuslimMatters.org
Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonight? My brother, I’m so sorry for your loss. Losses.| Nightmare Magazine
The Vancouver Writers Fest goes down from October 20th to 26th at various venues spotting Granville Island (and online). Once again, we took advantage of the event's impressive roster of writers to elicit a whole slew of book recommendations from its participants.| Scout Magazine
Twice by Mitch Albom is a story within a story. It opens with a man (Alfie) being questioned by casino security having done the unthinkable and won at the roulette table three times in a row. His interviewer (Vincent) assumes Alfie’s colluded with a casino employee or used magnets or similar, but Alfie continues to Continue Reading The post Book review: Twice by Mitch Albom appeared first on Debbish.| Debbish
The Final Chapter by January Gilchrist features a group of writers at a retreat, trapped with a killer when one is found dead.| Debbish
Today I’m visiting fellow author Jacqui Murray to introduce you to disabled war veteran Emmett Couture. Jacqui is a long-time blogging buddy who is a very accomplished researcher and author of prehistoric fiction. I hope you can take a few minutes and pop over to Jacqui’s place to meet Emmett! (I have closed comments here.)| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow Story Empire author D.L. Finn to introduce you to the oldest resident at the Sheldon Poor Farm, Florence Kimball, known as Flossie. I hope you can take a few minutes and pop over to Denise’s place to meet Flossie! (I have closed comments here.)| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow Story Empire author Nicholas Rossis to introduce you to the Vermont accent that the farmers in The Weight of Snow and Regret and most of the poor farm residents would have had (to a greater or lesser extent). I hope you can take a few minutes and give it a listen! … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: The Vermont Accent| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m visiting fellow author Miriam Hurdle. Miriam writes books straight from the heart in a variety of genres (poetry, memoir, picture books). She is also a painter and an extraordinary gardener. I have closed comments here; I hope to see you at Miriam’s place! And while you’re there, please check out her work!| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m over at fellow Story Empire writer Craig Boyack’s place to introduce the first in a series of characters inspired by photographs of Vermonters in the 1930s and 1940s on the Library of Congress website. (As someone who writes historical fiction, I am forever indebted to the Library of Congress.) I have closed comments … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: Character Spotlight on Hobo Philo Roy #NewRelease| Elizabeth Gauffreau
Today I’m over at John Howell’s place today to discuss the historical context for the Sheldon Poor Farm. John is a wonderful support for indie authors, and he writes one of my favorite blogs, with the shenanigans of his two rescue French bulldogs, Twiggy and Tempeste, being the highlight of my Thursdays. He is also … Continue reading The Weight of Snow and Regret Blog Tour: Historical Context #NewRelease| Elizabeth Gauffreau
“Who told you it’s empty? I saw light there last week,” chided little Mary. “Everyone knows that house has been vacant for years, Mary.” Joe couldn’t believe the stories his sister came up with these days. For a five-year-old, she was quite creative. “Stop lying, Mary,” scolded Joe. … More The Vacant House| Void Thoughts
A review of Wendell Berry's newest novel, "Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story."| Southern Review of Books
Ghosts seem to know better about who we are and what is right in "The Devil's Done Come Back"| Southern Review of Books
Nick Medina’s "The Whistler" is an Indigenous horror that pairs the loss of autonomy with paranormal folklore.| Southern Review of Books
Ne me demandez pas ce que c’est censé représenter, j’en sais pas plus que vous.Au moins c’est pas une meuf à poil. J’ai doucement commencé ce Fiction pendant les quelques pa…| Le Syndrome Quickson
My debut novel When Things Go Missing is finally, officially, published today! It is a creative endeavor long in the making that enriched my life and I hope will enrich the lives of readers. Y…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
Having talked about medical dramas, autism, and the hellscape depths of capitalism, we turn now to a simpler question: is there a piss kink in Paradise Rot? Paradise Rot is a 2009 short novel by Norweigan musician and novelist Jenny Hval. Translated into English in 2018, it follows a young Norweigan student starting university in […]| Death is a Whale
The only reason Poetry Comics is a four and not a five rating is there were two things I was not loving. The first is that sometimes a poem felt finished but kept on going and the second was that I was not sure why some of the poems were in that particular season. Such as many in the season of winter did not match with my idea of winter. However, Grant Snider’s works are fun stories done in clever poetry. They made cute illustrations […]| Cannonball Read 17
Recently I found an online reader copy of a title called Summer Solstice Wish by Kate Allen Fox and Elisa Paganelli. They have a prequel or companion Winter Solstice Wish which I remember reading, but was not WOWed by it, but felt that it was enjoyable to read. However, I tried to read Summer, and could not finish it. Perhaps I was in the wrong mood for it. Perhaps I was not the reader for it. Perhaps I was thinking of Halloween and summer was […]| Cannonball Read 17
Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen and illustrated by Violeta Encarnación was a WOW book. It was not necessarily the story itself (though that is pretty wild) it was the way it was formatted that really made it work for me. It is a fantastic circular story that shows how history can repeat. But not only that, the text is repeated. We start with a young girl who is behind a fence in the 1940s. How she gets there, the thoughts and feelings she […]| Cannonball Read 17
It’s October, and while I might not read *solely* spooky books this season, it seemed appropriate to kick off the month with a master of the genre. I have never read anything by Shirley Jackson (no, not even The Lottery) and I was most familiar with her work via Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House. Which is an excellent show (highly recommend!) but by all accounts not a great adaption of the source material. More like, inspired by. So I went into We Have […]| Cannonball Read 17
A desperate dad turns to the Celtic occult in an attempt to retrieve lost loved ones from the Otherworld. Written/directed by I. E. Kneverday.| Irish Myths
A teenager sacrifices everything for belonging, standing seventeen floors above a dying world, bound by blood to her new family.| Vox Meditantis
The Fifth Season takes place on a geologically unstable world where there’s a catastrophic “fifth season” of eruptions and earthquakes every few hundred years. It tells the story …| Unsolicited Feedback
Once the sun set, Angira could become bitterly cold. [Lord Bhima] noticed, however, that the dozen sinha [warriors] made a point of ignoring the cold as they waited for his orders. He studied his young charges and decided that they really thought they were the same stuff as the heroes of the old legends. They […]| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
…More hoofbeats as the prince and Sir Manfred came up, and the attendants. Several of them were swearing in amazement [at the scene where Princess Sita—not part of the hunting party—had just killed a wild boar from horseback]; one gave an involuntary shout of “Shabash!” and then they were all crying it. All but the […]| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Excerpts from books, films, television, and other websites to inspire your role-playing. Also original fiction, game design ideas, and commentary.| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
By Jon Kunitsky Persephone door, tighter than usual, in the shadow of The Arena, at the gate, and the waiting...| LIBRE
Content Warning Drug use. × By Thomas McEvoy I snorted cocaine so strong that Buddha descended. To alleviate suffering, fix...| LIBRE
Rebecca Sneed, wife of Lyle Menendez, lives a private yet intriguing life as an attorney. Explore her story, age, net worth, and where she stands today.| Baddiehu
Listen to The Literary Life: On this week’s episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford is joined as always by Thomas Banks and Cindy Rollins for the opening of their series on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Today our hosts focus on the background and historical context for this piece of literature, as well as going over the highlights of the first two chapters. They talk about the question of the role of the monster in literature in modernity versus its historical interpretation. U...| The Literary Life
It’s almost time for me to do some actual physical marketing at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival, which takes …Continue reading →| Stevie Turner
When you're writing in the third person, it's easy to end up head-hopping. This is when you move from one person’s perspective to another, without quite meaning to. It’s not a deliberate perspective shift, at the end of a scene or at some natural break. Instead, it’s like the point of... The post Do You Head-Hop? Getting Third Person Point of View Right first appeared on Aliventures.| Aliventures
Important Note About Kindle Periodicals/Unlimited Subscriptions Nightmare is withdrawing from the Kindle Periodicals Program on Kindle Unlimited due to the draconian terms and conditions. If you’re a subscriber via Kindle Unlimited and wish to continue your subscription (and we really hope you will!), you can subscribe directly via our website or via Weightless Books; all […]| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
What do the wicked stepmother and the innocent princess have in common? In this retelling, a lot more than you might think. I love a good fairy tale retelling, especially those that subvert the narrative in unexpected ways, and it’s high time for the jealous villainess archetype to be rewritten.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
In post-war Paris, a young photographer captures haunting images of the city’s ruins, only to find a shadowy figure drawing closer in every frame. As the lens brings it nearer, she learns too late that some subjects step out of photographs to claim their own. Please enjoy this horror short, part of a series experimenting […]| M.A. Kleen
A merchant woman reflects on displacement, progress, and the fires of industry whilst navigating the gilded halls of Carlton House.| Vox Meditantis
The perils of life in a sea vessel are explored in this selection of books The post Top 5 seafaring books, chosen by award-winning writer Carolyn Kirby appeared first on Big Issue.| Big Issue
Plus: Plus a “Catch-Up” date, Upcoming Appearances, and William Alexander in New York! (This is mirrored from my newsletter, so please forgive the repetition if you get both of them.) D…| C.S.E. Cooney
The death of a wealthy industrialist initially seems like an accident, but soon sparks a murder inquiry.| Standard Ebooks - Newest Ebooks
In this episode, Maggie Tokuda-Hall speaks about refusing to write to market expectations and her experience with censorship. The post Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Free Expression and Fighting Book Bans appeared first on Libro.fm Audiobooks.| Libro.fm Audiobooks
by Grace F. Hopkins It was hotter than seven hells outside, but they kept the windows closed. Mrs. Abernathy—Widow Abernathy now—didn’t want...| www.mysteriononline.com
by Ken Pisani Jack Williams was a New York sportswriter for thirty years before Hollywood beckoned. Actually, it didn’t so much “beckon” as merely exist on the other side of the country and, upon his arrival, disappear, like Brigadoon. Several of Jack’s articles had been optioned by Hollywood producers for significant sums of money—sums that […]| The Lit Nerds
by Megan Reimers and Matt Forsythe The boulevard passed Tuscawilla Country Club and began its descent toward Howell Creek. The drop was steep by Florida standards, and Jamie checked her speed, focu…| The Lit Nerds
[Image: View larger! From “Celestial Detector,” 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; all text by Geoff Manaugh, all images by John Becker/WROT Studio.] I had a new piece of short fiction commissioned by the 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale that was just published last week over at e-flux. The theme of the Triennale this year is “How Heavy … Continue reading "Celestial Detector"| BLDGBLOG
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Will Boast as the winner of the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His collection The Submerged will be published by the Universi…| ugapress.wordpress.com
“Here’s your pass to move one step closer to God. Use your power wisely.” This KakaoTalk message from an unknown profile arrived a day after I bombed another public service examination. The message had a short URL at the end. Normally I would never be fooled by scammy links, but this time my curiosity completely overshadowed my reason. Clicking this won’t charge me shit, I thought. Staring at the screen, I sprang out of bed and sat on the mattress. It was past midnight, and my mind wa...| Minsuk Kang
Fortunately, the alternator in my 1984 Dodge Ram is easy to access, otherwise I’d have to take it to a garage to get it replaced. I really can’t afford a car repair this month; I’ve barely worked. This weighs heavily on my mind as I roll over in bed and try to tune out the sound of my wife, who is sitting outside the bedroom window in the driveway of our Hollywood apartment smoking cigarettes and drinking cans of beer from our red and white Playmate. I hear the lid scrape open and shut ...| The Bookends Review
after Remedios Varo’s “Astral Entity” NOTES FOR THE BABYSITTER You can reach me at 555-GET-AWAY or call the Get a Break bar on Vacation Blvd. and have them page me. I hope you don’t do that though. She only answers to Astra, but if you have an emergency her name is Nora Boudeman and she’s six years old. She has no physical preexisting conditions. She will only eat sugar water and rocket pops and dandelion salad. The salad is in a Tupperware in the fridge. She’s in a phase. She has...| The Bookends Review
