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Black Tide

It’s The End of the World as We Know It Author: KC Jones Beth is a car wreck of a person: all broken parts, sputtering starts, and failed journeys. Her mother is the one who came up with the analogy, and Beth knows that it fits; she is haunted by her failures, the broken friendships, the failed jobs, the lost opportunities, the hopelessness of it all. While house sitting for a rich family at a fancy beach town, she does it again. She reaches out to connect when she shouldn’t and finds herself drunk on champagne, in bed with the solitary [...]

2024-01-13T13:36:06-07:00January 13th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Terror, The

A Dull Mishmash of Stories Author: Dan Simmons Two ships, stranded in the Arctic, locked in mountains of ice, hunted by an unknown foe. Sir John Franklin’s exploration, searching for the Northwest Passage, is a famous doomed voyager. The desultory black and white photos live on, as does the mystery of the men’s final days, dying one by one, attempting to walk across barren fields of ice. It’s a true story thrumming with pathos and paranoia, and the perfect subject for a fictionalized account. In Dan Simmon’s re-imagining, the doomed men of the two ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, are [...]

2023-12-27T15:17:24-07:00December 27th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Carnival of Fear

Justice for the Damned Author: J. Robert King In Carnival l’Morai you can see your dreams and nightmares. You can see horrors and oddities, performances and putrescences, life and death. No one knows this better than Marie, the beautiful blind juggler. But, despite the roughness of this life, the performers (called freaks) have a close-knit network, a friendliness that helps them through the judgement and the days and nights filled with jeering crowds. But everything changes when Marie goes into her caravan one night only to find the walls and floor coated in blood, the sword swallower dead and impaled on [...]

2023-12-26T13:57:57-07:00December 26th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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