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Her Story: Splintered Selves and Shattered Narratives

September 20, 2019

Stories about doubles and dopplegängers abound. My first encounter with them was probably Stephen King’s The Dark Half, which follows in a long line of...

Form and Function in Horror

September 12, 2019

It’s September, which means it’s basically October, which means I have license to dive face-first into my first and foremost love: high-key creepy...

"And death killed him."

September 4, 2019

I wrote last week about the Bread and Puppet Theater, a radical puppet theater based out of Glover, Vermont. This week, I want to examine one of their...

Bread & Puppet Theater

August 26, 2019

Back in 2009--although it makes me die a little to remember that was ten whole-ass years ago--I spent a summer working as an apprentice puppeteer to the...

What makes a story work?

So I write fiction, mostly. But I started out writing (awful) poetry and (less awful) screenplays. I’ve written comics, essays, plays, rabble-rousing emails,...