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When Mouse, a thirty-something editor with a dog named Bongo, gets a call from her father asking if she’s willing to clean out her recently deceased grandmother’s house, she doesn’t hesitate. Her father never asks her for anything, so the moment he does, she’s ready to answer. That’s just what family does. He warns her…
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The other day, while having a writing session with a good friend of mine, I talked at length about my efforts in writing my novel, which includes a Deaf protagonist. I mentioned how I messed up a significant part of my first draft relating to her, and how I had to spend time researching the…
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Originally read and reviewed beginning of June, 2026 This graphic novel is the autobiographical story of George Takei’s childhood in the Japanese internment camps of World War II. It discusses, with simple yet evocative illustrations, the journey Takei’s family went through, and the broader story of the internment camps’ inception, development, and eventual disbandment. Also…
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Already another recommendation from the Nightlight podcast. I’ve only recently started it and really there hasn’t been a bad episode. Still, this one struck me as particularly excellent. “The Nasty at Bellua” by Danny Lore is a science-fiction horror story. It follows a team of three exploratory astronauts, who have recently returned to the research…
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Anthologies can be tricky. On the one hand, they’re an excellent guarantee of variety along a theme. On the other hand, you can’t count on every story being one that will resonate. I’ve read anthologies where literally every single tale included was an absolute banger, and I’ve read others where I was, for the most…
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I’ve only recently begun listening to the podcast Nightlight, described by its website as “a horror anthology audio drama featuring stories written by Black writers and voiced by Black actors.” I’ve been enjoying it immensely thus far, and have listened to several episodes, chilling stories all. But the episode I listened to a couple days…
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We’re working backwards through reviews I’ve written over the past year and change. This review was written 29 May, 2026. I just finished reading The Bone People this evening. Since then I’ve had a shower and enjoyed an ice cream sundae, all while turning it over in my mind. The story lingers, and invites consideration.…
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I first read Braiding Sweetgrass as part of the assigned reading in my Creative Writing MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, though I had heard about the book and been wanting to read it for some time before that. Still, I didn’t expect to encounter it in a Fiction course – the book is…
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Bainbridge Island Press has released a new poetry anthology, Grain, a collection of nearly ninety curated poems. According to the publisher, “Grain gathers voices who know wheat and rice, harvest and hunger, the daily loaf and the loaf of feast, and it asks what poetry might learn from the work of feeding people.” One of…
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It’s no secret that I love horror. It may well be my favorite genre, to watch or read or play. Horror movies are particularly fun for me, and my favorite of these is Hellraiser. It has been ever since I watched it many years ago at Cthulhu-con in Portland, Oregon. The con took place in…
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