Young Zombies in Love (part 1) by Kyle Garret from Best New Writing 2014 Part 1 of “Young Zombies in Love” “Unnamed Adaptation of ‘Unrequited’” lacked romance. Karen had never worked with zombies before. She’d never even considered them. She watched as many movies as she could, from Romero’s originals and all the remakes, to…
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Young Zombies in Love, Part 1
Young Zombies in Love (part 1) by Kyle Garret from Best New Writing 2014 Karen has decided that her revenge will be cantaloupe. Greg is not a fan; he’s not a fan of anything in the melon family, so they rarely have it in the house. So she has bought not one, but two cantaloupes,…
Positive Parenting From Negative Parents
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about our respective childhoods, comparing notes, in a way. While our upbringings were very different, they were thematically the same. Our motivation to do good — or to not do bad — was the same: fear. Fear is fear is fear. Whether it stems from years…
Ted Lasso was always a ticking time bomb
Ted Lasso was great despite a foundational story problem that was ultimately its undoing.
I don’t have strong enough words for this
Our friends’ 11 year old son passed away this morning. He had been fighting cancer for a long time. He and his family had been fighting so hard for so long that the fact that this is how that story ended fills me with unbearable rage. We weren’t close to his family and most of…
The New Legion Isn’t Working
I love the Legion of Superheroes. I could — and probably will — write endless posts about how much the Legion has meant to me over the years. I could write about how fascinated I was when I first read about them, how hunting down back issues was so much fun, how fan fic filled…
Aging Jon Kent Was a Mistake
Let me start with three opinions: 1. Super Sons (Jon Kent and Damian Wayne) was fantastic and I miss both the series and the relationship that those two characters had. I loved that imaginary stories from decades earlier suddenly became real in the DCU. 2. The actual story that aged Jon was bad. It made…
Superman: The Triangle Years, Part 2 – Out of the Closet
More from the Triangle Years: Part One: Embrace Continuity A month before the Triangle Years begins, Clark Kent proposes to Lois Lane. She still doesn’t know he’s Superman. This is, of course, a total dick move on Superman’s part, but it’s something that’s rectified just a few months into the Triangle Years. The Triangle Years…
Superman: The Triangle Years, Part 1 – Embrace Continuity
Bold statement: Superman’s glory days happened during the Triangle Years in the ’90s. I can understand if that sounds insane, particularly since I’m making the above statement as someone who loves the hell out of Silver Age Superman. If you’ve never read Superman stories from the Silver Age, you really should. They are bat shit…
I had a really great conversation about Jesus
I suppose it’s rare in this day and age to have enlightening, intellectually stimulating conversations with people who hold different beliefs than you. But it happened. And it has stuck with me. The person I was talking to is a Christian, a liberal Christian, who was raised in the faith and who has built her…