Category: Features

Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond

  • July 29, 2016

  • 8 mins to read

cosmic fiction

Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond. The Weird Renaissance. We hear that phrase thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? A renaissance is generally defined as a situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long …

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The Cutting Room – My Father Die

  • July 28, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

Asher loses both his speech and hearing during an attack that leaves his brother dead. The assassin? Asher’s own father, Ivan, a tattooed monster showing no remorse. Jailed for the assault, but released two decades later due to prison overcrowding, pumped-up Asher wastes no time in seeking the ultimate retribution. Why we’re looking forward to …

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Look Out For … You’ll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker and Darker Battlefields

  • July 26, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For … You’ll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker “Rucker’s fiction shows a mature and highly original understanding of what scares the bejesus out of us.” A woman returns home to revisit an encounter with the numinous; couples take up residence in houses full of sinister secrets; a man fleeing …

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Busting the Mainstream: Portland’s Thriving BizarroCon Community

  • July 26, 2016

  • 7 mins to read

BizzaroCon Reading

I’m bored, and nobody loves me. That’s not exactly true, because I have a big family, so there’s always something I MUST do. But what can I do for fun? I think, generally, people do want to belong somewhere, to someTHING, and that is part of the reason why church services are often advertised as …

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