Faithful readers! I have changed the name of my newsletter to “The Fainting Couch.” I realized that this isn’t the space where I’m going to be talking about writing all that much, and I noticed that “Just Keep Writing” was causing some confusion among potential subscribers. So here you have it. Come, recline with me.

It’s looking like August is going to be chock full of work, so here is another old post of mine—this is from August of 2021, so I know many of you will not have seen it yet. Or maybe you have! I don’t know your life!

Here is “The Quicksand and the Dead.”