don't tell mom the babysitter's dead

[intertribal]

Innsmouth Free Press released their Multi-Ethnic Issue today (Lovecraftian stories set outside typical milieus, with non-typical casts), and my story, "Red Goat, Black Goat" is included.  Hence the Uxia icon!  The story's a variation of the old "babysitter horror" trope, except in Indonesia, where things are a little different.

So you know, have a read if you are so inclined. 

(Look, my name's on the cover along with people who are way more famous and awesome than I!)

PDF of whole issue (pretty, shiny!)
Just my story, online

Comments

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lol, yes, that's exactly what happens when I try to think through examples. I fall off the comma cliff. I don't know what I would have concluded when I wrote that... but thinking now, I have trouble thinking of writers that I feel get really close to "truth." I'm almost tempted to say Heller in Catch-22, and McCarthy in The Crossing... but it's hard to say. I guess I'm not sure what the truth looks like. Is it like child pornography, you know, I can't define it but I know it when I see it? You'd probably disagree with that.

I actually like the people in my poli sci class too. There was a disturbing side-comment today about Japanese civilians deserving to be atomic-bombed... but it's actually a fairly participatory, earnest class. So does that mean what's useful in understanding ethics is where participants in the discussion are coming from in terms of background?