Caroline Dudley

Move into a skulk and the context changes to a complex of concrete buildings. Dirt cheap wine, hairspray and torn fishnets. Voguing, chewing the cheek and two restless legs. Can you understand?

Just thought of a comeback 20 years late.

Love that.

Strange experiences could be seen as a personal, living and evolving Tarot deck.

The problem with cups of tea - they end.

Psyduck plush, Stephen King's The Shining paperback and an iced americano.

Don't mean to brag but I majored in depression.

Feeling a bit exposed and hospitally. A bit band-aidy, you know?

Day One edition of Silent Hill f with limited edition tin.

It's like my birthday all over again.

And a cheer-up ice cream at the beach.

Cy bought me a cheer-up book.

We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

Enjoyed this way more than I expected, actually. Very good. I'll be thinking about it for a while.

Bring back The OA

I'm 73 pages in, and characters have 'rounded a corner' approximately 64 times. The things you pick up on when you're an editor 😅

Keep thinking that soon I will get myself together enough to do great things.

I read Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in one sitting yesterday. Today I'm starting We Used to Live Here.

In fact, I think this has given me the inspiration to pick an old project back up. Perhaps I can make something out of it after all.

Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul.

I absolutely adored this. Even considering the ambiguity, I really don't understand why it gets such low ratings. Stunning prose, hallucinatory horror, internal trauma depiction with no notes.

Blastbeat Falafel

Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Fingerprint by Michael L Sevy we had a dinette, the house was too small for a proper dining room, there was a painting on the wall, notable because artwork was minimal in the house, I was fascinated by this painting, it looked …

FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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Last of the sake. It's been a stressful day.

I'm being sold trauma therapy where you don't tell your therapist what the trauma is and you don't even think about it, you just blink really fast.

This seems Silent Hill coded.

When I went into town for supplies I discovered the sorcerer working in a bakery. He was very excited about the sound teacakes made in the toaster. He took a special interest in me and I had to hide the bracelet or he would know I banished him. A klaxon went off and the walls started falling in.

Dreamed that I did a puzzle/ritual deep in the woods involving finding coloured beads that made a bracelet. When worn, an evil sorcerer would be banished from living there and I could safely pitch my tent.

YouTube video by Ben Goh The Mind-Matter Problem | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

A chat about the Mind-Matter Problem:
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I read the first chapter of this last night and it blew me away. There's something a bit Lispector about the prose, and it nails the feeling of a certain kind of trauma.

The Observer Effect: A Quantum Role-Playing Game (QRPG)

Each move: bends.

Change reality’s poem by observing it.
You cannot perform;
while performing.

What should I read next?

The Shining - Stephen King

Supplication - Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke - Eric LaRocca

We Used To Live Here - Marcus Kliewer

Weigh in. Let me know.