In this place marking our eternal return, we take respite to examine across various media the supernatural, myth, folklore, science-fiction, science-fantasy, dark fantasy, the weird tale, and much more.
Unlike the landscape surrounding him, he is insubstantial. He is not of matter; he is more than immaterial; he is greater than psyche; he is beyond nous; he has become Being. He sees without eyes, without a body. And what he sees unfolding around his sight is nothing less than a blighted, barren waste land.… Continue reading Andromeda Falling (Excerpt 2…)
Part 1 Singularities Chapter 1 Voices 1. There was no escape from the voices, from the cacophony of white noise in his head. Awake or asleep, they would not be silenced. The medication cocktail would quiet the voices to a drone akin to the buzzing of a million billion bees. He could almost…almost…tolerate that.… Continue reading Andromeda Falling (Excerpt…)
Though I do have to admit that, in the past, I was entirely guilty of falling back on the very devices I now wish to denounce, it is only in the present that I have come to realize how tired a cliché and a blatant display of lazy storytelling the use of dream sequences within… Continue reading Notes on Dream Use in Storytelling
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