I read the newest Sirenia Digest to-day, which contains a new series of vignettes by Caitlin R. Kiernan called "THE ULTRAVIOLET ALPHABET". Each vignette corresponds to a letter, from A to M. A few of them are just like nice miniature lectures from a palaeontologist, which Caitlin indeed happens to be. I particularly liked "K is for Komodo Dragon" ( Read more... )

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To-day I read "Dark Adapted Eyes", the new Caitlin R. Kiernan story in the Sirenia Digest. It's a treat for anyone obsessed with film and film history. It presents a story, told with one conventional narrative scene, one article, and one interview, about a lost film called Dark Adapted Eyes. The first part, the third person part with dialogue, is ( Read more... )

Over twenty years ago, I signed up for a Yahoo! account because there was no site for Houyhnhnms. To this day, I remain married to it due to various other things I signed up for with the e-mail and friends and family members who can't remember my g-mail address. That doesn't stop me from forgetting to check it for weeks or months at a stretch which ( Read more... )

Happy Good Friday, everyone. The latest Caitlin R. Kiernan story in Sirenia Digest is sort of appropriate to the topic. It's an exceptionally good one in any case, called "STRANDLING", which mixes Lovecraftian eeriness with the melancholy topic of the impending death of a loved one ( Read more... )

To-day I read what I think is the newest Sirenia Digest, number 214, containing "Night Fishing", a new Caitlin R. Kiernan story. It's a nice blurring of the line between a multiverse story and an unreliable memory story, centring on a narrator menaced by some entity that shifts shape and temporal location in his recollections. It put me in mind of ( Read more... )

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I read the new Sirenia Digest while eating lunch to-day. The new Caitlin R. Kiernan story, "The Moment Under the Moment", is a deliberately Lovecraftian tale, another nice exploration of the tangled psychological space, a portrait of human mental functioning fractured and frustrated by dreams and bizarre trauma ( Read more... )