Fires Burning All the Time
When you move through life with an undiagnosed, untreated panic disorder, you curate a rather nasty collection of fears. Some of them were rather vague, like...
I Buried My Love at Toluca Lake
I'm going to make two very normal statements that the non-gamer contingent of my subscribers may not understand. Rest assured, they are very normal. Widely...
Three Stories Living Rent-free in My Head
There is a single panel of Junji Ito's manga Tomie that continues to haunt me. It isn't particularly memorable among the series’ chapters, no more eerie than...
Let It Be Unnamed
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.William...
This Story Is (Not) Yours
The sun sets so early in December November 2023 marks a full decade since my first book came out. That's strange to think about. I don't really believe in...
We Happy Sisyphus
"Already at that time [2001], I began to think that if I didn't develop Evangelion as content, there would be no future for anime. If that's the case, I...
This Is (Not) A Dollhouse
When I was eleven, I once stood in the KB Toys store located at the Outlets at Hillsboro in Hillsboro, Texas, and saw the most beautiful doll in the world....
Drowning in Halcyon
Galerians concept artwork by Shou Tajima There is a boy waking in a hospital, a girl hiding in a hotel, and a goddess reigning from her tower. These are...
The Obligatory Writer Newsletter
Through numerous deliberate acts of self-sabotage over the last decade that I have been writing and publishing, I have not nor have I ever been known for my...
The Last Book in The Library of Babel
The library will endure; it is the universe The first time I read The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, I was in my sun-warmed hostel in San Diego,...
Homecomings and Nevergoings
Stop, 'Cause You're Killing Me Sometime in 2021, I think, my youngest brother, who I have since been fighting with, made a post on his now deleted Instagram....
Navigating the Fearful Romantique
An important thing you need to know about me is that I love love stories, but I don't think I like romances. Or rather, I don't think that romances like me....
Thieves in the Temple
AI is here and, as someone who does stuff on the internet for a living, it's annoying me on a daily basis. The content scraping revolution has taken my...
Jet Black New Year
It's 2023. We meet again. Or perhaps we're meeting for the first time. It depends on when you got here, I guess. I wanted to start this year off with...
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and the Generosity of Storytelling
All six JoJos celebrating the tenth anniversary of the David Production anime adaptation. Left to right: Jolyne Cujoh, Giorno Giovanna, Josuke Higashikata,...
An Empire State of Mind
Let’s Hear it for New York People write about Twitter like they write about New York City. That's what I hear, anyway. Warm, poetic contemplation on what the...
My Year in the Swedish House Mafia
Give Me a Taste of Spotify Pie I don't usually put a lot of stock in Spotify related…things. Yet if I see some new trendy app or widget or doodad that will...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
It seems that fall is here, following summer's hasty retreat like a man who owes me twenty dollars and doesn't want to see me socially again. Fall feels...
A Coffin For Sparrows: Prologue
The life Camilo Durand created for himself and his family in the 15th arrondissement was as quiet as a funeral. It was marked by the same tasteful white...
The Day the Hunters Came to the Pendleton Bros. Traveling Faire
The sun rose the same way for Cal Jeanneton because the sun always looked the same over the Pendleton Bros. Traveling Faire. Patchy pink sky and pale-yellow...