Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?… Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience. East of Eden and the Ghost of a Friend This quote has lived rent-free in my head since I first read it…
What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling around the sun. ♪ Making my way to Palermo from Denver takes me about 24 excruciatingly slow hours, dozing in and out of consciousness, my mind assailed by sweet memories tainted with a bitter edge by ruthless time and dragging my bones…
It was hatred at first sight. The moment the professor saw Jake during the dean’s induction speech, he was utterly consumed by antipathy. Why he should have felt this way when the student was but one harmless face lost in a sea of freshmen, he never knew. That ominous feeling, however, never left him. He…
Varg could pinpoint the exact moment everything accelerated down to one silky, sensuous summer night. Alone, at dusk, in the same park he had already spent a hundred evenings, the teen was soaking in the wondrous sight of a young woman training her lithe, focused border collie when to fetch and not to fetch. She…
Lovecraft was never shy about his influences, discussing them at length in his correspondences, and sometimes referencing them in his work, thus expanding the Lovecraftian canon far beyond the reach of his own stories. The King in Yellow is one such entity, and we will try to understand here what enraptured Lovecraft so much in…