Laura Garrison

I just taught this story in my Poe class, and I am so sad my students are too young to appreciate that joke.

You are always a style inspiration, but this one takes it to a whole new level.

You are a disco Viking!

Finishing PLURIBUS reminded me that it’s important not to rush through your story, and scenes with little or no dialogue can have a huge emotional impact. And I’m prepping spring classes on Poe and horror, so I’m excited to write about scary stuff. #scriptchat

The view from my desk—I looked up and saw a cardinal, but not soon enough . . .
#WorstBirdPic
#PhotoFailFriday

The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

screenshot of text chat; Justin’s message reads “I don’t know if you could hear me, but the clothes should be done in about 15 minutes. Would you be able to fold them?” My reply is a meme of the Swedish Chef from The Muppets captioned “NURT TE VURRY / I FURLDED DE CLURRS!”

This is what being married to me is like.

Issue 130, October 2025 Read the pdf People Eater, Nicholas Alti”You want to go blow for blow? What kindof sexy threat is that? Don’t hurt me! Harm me.” haiku, Randy Brooks”dishwater handsfingering out a…

Issue 130 is hatched and wriggling! New stories and poems! www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9117

This is Spinal Tap. “It really puts perspective on things, though, doesn’t it?” “Yeah, too much. There’s too much fucking perspective now.”

Artist! Quote with your most detailed art!

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔

But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️

If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

One of the few aesthetic delights reserved for extremely nearsighted folk is gazing at a well-lit Christmas tree with one’s glasses off.

DRACULA (Bram Stoker)
REBECCA (Daphne du Maurier)
CHARLOTTE’S WEB (E. B. White)
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (Benjamin Alire Sáenz)
(oops; that’s four)

Lolita
On the Waterfront
Inception

You will be visited by three spirits.

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

My kid: Aren’t you a teacher?

Me: Yeah, but I don’t teach math; I teach English.

My other kid: I thought you taught creative wiping?

from Naomi Shihab Nye, “Valentine for Ernest Mann”

My only published academic article is a poetic analysis of dialogue in Will Ferrell movies! #scriptchat

YES! #scriptchat

Oh lord, that deranged backstory about Phoebe Cates’ dad dying in the chimney 😂 #scriptchat

I think this one came up already in a different context, but despite being a comedy, Groundhog Day does. #scriptchat

Yeah, that’s a really good observation. It would be cool to see a film engage more meaningfully with holiday-specific feelings (fear and other). #scriptchat

I would definitely go see that Arbor Day one. (Make Like a Tree . . . and DIE!) #scriptchat

How do we feel about holiday horror films? Any favorites? #scriptchat

It’s quite good! And I’m *not* a huge romcom person. #scriptchat

When Harry Met Sally, kind of? It ends on New Year’s, anyway. #scriptchat #scriptsky

A partially deflated snowman lawn decoration reclines among some green shrubs, stubby twig arms upraised imploringly, carrot nose pointed toward the heavens like a cathedral spire.

Me begging the Great Old Ones for a snow day when I forgot to study for a big test.

Slightly blurry selfie with a wax figure of Freddy Krueger. There’s a suggestion of a boiler room in the background. We are both smiling, but he is gazing off past me to something off camera.

There’s no street like Elm.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.