Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

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Apr 02, 2024
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Last month, I read Scatter by Mindy Macfarlane on Kindle Unlimited. It's a novella that has been getting some attention in splatterpunk circles for its grotesque opening scene (modeled after the infamous Russian lathe video), but it stands out from its atrocity-on-every-page contemporaries for its Lynchian tone, thematic heftiness, and literary sensibil…

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