A surreal comic novel (in the tradition of magic realism) about a young writer in the throes of a messy marital breakup and his subsequent drifting into madness. Plus his talking cat, Fred. This is episode 4...
A surreal comic novel (in the tradition of magic realism) about a young writer in the throes of a messy marital breakup and his subsequent drifting into madness. Plus his talking cat, Fred. This is episode 3...
Lorn has been wandering around the world for a very long time, but he doesn't know why. As the story opens, he meets two people in a dice-house, and decides on a whim to follow them. This choice will lead him...
A surreal comic novel (in the tradition of magic realism) about a young writer in the throes of a messy marital breakup and his subsequent drifting into madness. Plus his talking cat, Fred. This is episode 2...
Before there was the Simpson trial, before there was Judge Judy, there was murder. Murder is a book that unwinds like a movie with each poem a scene. We open with an introduction to the killer followed by the...
A surreal comic novel (in the tradition of magic realism) about a young writer in the throes of a messy marital breakup and his subsequent drifting into madness. Plus his talking cat, Fred. This is a series...
Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art—media and genres that are a little embarrassing....
Wash your pain away with the misery of others! “Involuntary Muscle” by Black Static contributor Maura McHugh tells of Lilly, her unhappy life made more miserable yet by surprising news. “House of Nowhere”,...
The gruff Mr. Ellis teaches Woodshop in a forgotten end of the school with cannibalized machines to an apathetic student body. As the factories close down and jobs leave forever, students at Devon schools are...
The coming of the zombies to the world is not necessarily the coming of the apocalypse. Take a tour of the research facility where Dr. Denise Luco combats the zombie infection. Anthony Heron must continuously...
Eleven-year-old Barton has never been accepted in the artists' commune at the fringe of the Empire. He's not gifted at painting or sculpture, after all-the only aptitude he seems to possess is magical ability....
Frank is on the road, hitting all the high spots (or the low spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a hitch-hiker off the 10...