Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

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Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

How to Get Undead in Advertising: An Interview with Aurora Stewart de Peña

The author of Julius Julius on ad agency ghosts, shaming PSAs, and sexual harassment post-#MeToo

In the Mist

Notes on cruising. 

Duke Alvarez: American Mummy Outlaw; or, The Undead Years of Phillipe LaFontaine

The manner of my demise is of little interest, besides serving as our jumping off point.

The Hideaway

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

The Almost Dad

Is it okay that he’s over here so often, hooking up my mum’s speakers and swirling his single malt Scotch? We all wonder, we never ask.

Victims and Executioners

Whatever angle you look at it, one detail is incontrovertible: in the end, a man is going to be killed.

Midwives

It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.