The Crooked Sort
Issue #8
Welcome to the newest issue of The Crooked Sort! This is [normally] a summary of my activities throughout the preceding week(s). Plus some recommendations from my personal reading.
A Science Fiction focused tale centered around a government funded research operation to rapidly evolve qualified candidates with special abilities.
Under the notion of an anti-terrorism task force. What could go wrong?
The silent protagonist with a penchant for disappearing into the background continues. Hermits will recognize the struggle. This is other world fantasy.
Dispatches from Microhell continues with Michael’s vague dispatch staging suffering against leaving our mistakes behind. It’s weird because the way that it is.
Must-Reads…
I love this. Especially because it means something to me, but I can’t ascertain if my personal meaning is the explicit inference it was written for. That’s high level philosophy right there! Suparna Chakraborti showed me the storm I’ve been chasing and the poem asks if we’re prepared to see it for what it is.
It’s difficult to say I enjoyed this because I left the post depressed! It was wonderfully written and perfectly witty, but it’ll make Earth feel a bit like Hell. I often write about how the system creates forced complicity in DFM and this is a much more in-your-face, realistic example through non-fantasy fiction. Thanks for this Andy Edge
Nathan Hatch gave us a little bit of naughty magic here with a story that nails its intended tone. In a rare and immersive voice, we get the tale of Nester. He doesn’t succumb to his trauma, but leaves a mark on the world with it instead. This is deeply enjoyable and honestly very fun for a horror story.
There’s more than one way to skin a…stake a vampire. Jenifer Jorgenson plops us wholly into a nameless cast, where the characters are their regrets and memories instead. It’s quite impressive, actually. Vampire horror, where the terror lies in the choices we make for a buck.
Artemis delivers cult horror in record compression with The Dreaming One. It’s a very quick read that hits every mark. I have to restrain myself from begging them to make it a series, because I want that from everything they write. All of Artemis’s stories should just not end!
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Thank you for the mention 🙂 I'm glad the poem meant something to you!
I like your activity post(s). I was thinking about something similar, but I'm too shy.