Category: horror

  • Book Review: Some Girls Are, by Courtney Summers

    I’ve been a huge Courtney Summers fan for about a year. I don’t mean a fan of her books, but of Courtney Summers herself. As soon as I heard her interview on I Should be Writing, with her brutal honesty about the struggle between writing and internet distractions, plus her palpable passion for zombies, I…

  • The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 5

    My real-life romantic life remains only sporadically eventful. But on the internet—on the internet— just look at all these lovely people who are waiting for me to contact them and rock their worlds. (click for embiggening, as usual) She is such a master poet that she can be playful with the English language. So many…

  • First Person Plural

    We need to abandon the idea that each of us has one cohesive identity. Everyone possesses multiple personalities, each with their own set of motivations, goals, and quirks. Call them what you want, but there’s always the rational part, the mind, driven by cool rationality, always thinking it’s calculated what’s best for you. Then there’s…