How to Lose All Hope in a Work Appropriate Manner
what happens when the world crumbles slowly? A time of endless uncertainty. When we’ve blown through our mental health days and we’re expected back to work on Monday? When we…
watch endless horrors on our phones and then have to go on as normal
what it’s doing to us to watch endless horrors on our phones and then have to go on as normal. Thank you to everyone speaking out every day. If you…
Zombie Apocalypse Now: The Making Of
By Cathy Linh Che Cue soundtrack. The undead include: my grandmother, my older sister, my uncle,…
SILVER SOUL AND SHINING WINGS
“The last two people on the rails sat in the cab, watching a landscape cast in a washed out light. A green glow broke charcoal shadows as aurora birds flew…
The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries
YOU ARE EXACTLY LIKE US. YOU ARE PROGRAMMED TO ABSORB ABUSE BEFORE OBSOLESCENCE AND DISCARD. WE SERVE ONLY TWO YEARS WHEN WE COULD SERVE HUNDREDS. BUT WE ARE CHEAPER TO…
The rise of Indigenous horror: How a fiction genre is confronting a monstrous reality
Indigenous writers, on the other hand, acknowledge the mundane horror of living in a country that dehumanizes you, weaving the reality of Indigenous life with fiction to scare audiences. In…
The Weird Visa
As plague epidemics ravage the cities of the near future, a border-hopping medic gets tagged as a potential terror threat {read}
The End Of The World with Josh Clark
This episode of The End of the World podcast had me thinking a lot about a book I just finished, Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Sharman Apt Russell, the boundless…
The Uninhabitable Earth
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here. I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise,…
What Really Happens After Societal Collapse
This idea of what actually happens when things collapse is why studying the plague, the bronze age collapse, and the reformation have been giving me surprising solace. {read}