High School Stories 4: Flowers
Spiders, cicadas, millipedes, butterflies…they’re always locked in a life-or-death struggle, but they’re much more innocent than we humans.
Jet Set Radio: Performative Rebellion
Wine ages, physically changing. But Jet Set Radio is the same as in 2000. It is everything else that changed.
Whatever Happened to the Mr. Elles of Yesterday?
If he still works at that school, I could always visit, but I prefer not to know.
High School Stories 3: Soot
I am alone now, but I was alone even when they lived here by the thousands, so I am used to the experience.
Arresting Dress by Clare Sears, Featuring Milton Matson and Other Historical Trans Folks
“I’m beginning to think it pays to be notorious. It certainly does not seem to be a detriment to people in America” (104).
The Hastur Cycle: Robert Chambers’s Wacky King in Yellow
It is as the transmission and mutation of the King in Yellow over a century, and not as narratives in of themselves, that these stories are most interesting.
Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka: A Nightmare in More Ways Than One (NSFW)
Kirihito did leave me panting like a half-beaten dog man, but not in the way I expected.
High School Stories 1: The Beach Guy
Every life ends, Samuel, so your average plonker spends theirs in fear.
I Love Trash: An Ode to Junkbot, the LEGO Flash Game Legend
As simple as they appear to be, Junkbot and Junkbot Undercover played an outsized part in my creative development.