The Throwback Special
I have zero interest in football, which can make it challenging to move through American life.
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Plaza
Service plazas are modern works of art where I can eat slick food next to twelve lanes of humming traffic, lording over a glittering river of steel and glass.
The Haunting of Hill House
Hill House, famously not sane, bothers the soul because Jackson describes the perception of horror, not the horror itself.
Drone
Tinnitus occurs for many reasons, most of them vague.
The Moment Dots Become a Pattern
I've been stuck on the last 20% of a story I'm writing about a haunted frequency, so I went to the museum to shake some ideas loose.
I Need to Make Mistakes
The first thing I do with a new notebook is write something stupid and messy on the first page.
The Fifth Child
Maybe I was primed for horror because I woke before dawn on a Sunday morning.
Red Shift
They say evolution occurs most rapidly in body parts that attract lovers and frighten rivals.
Pictures from a Bad Dream
This morning I fed a robot a few sentences from the novel I'm writing, and it generated some startlingly accurate pictures.
A Fascinating Little Ailment
I sneeze whenever I glance at the sun, which I’ve always taken as proof I am a night owl.
Passage
Maps of the Arctic give me vertigo. All that blank bright land feels like leaping off a rooftop.
Radioactivity
Cut to commercial, and I hum along with a jingle for a machine that controls your brainwaves while you sleep.