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"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is boring. She's interested in feeling, and when her stories turn violent (as they frequently do), it's with a surreal emotional barbarity that distorts the entire world. You can mop up blood with any fabric. Maggie's concern is with the wound left behind, because the wound never leaves-it haunts. As a result, each of these stories leaves a wound of its own. Some weep, watching as you try (and fail) to recover. Others laugh. But never without feeling."
-B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space
"And once finished, I felt like my tongue had been misplaced, guts heavy and expanded ... gums numb with a tongue that'd been put elsewhere, my mouth clean around a pipe weaving up through pitch and shadow ... and well past ready, primed for delight, waiting but knowing I had already been filled to skin; crying shit, hearing piss, fingernails seeping bile, pores dribbling blood, soles slopping off and out to meet a drain mid-floor ..."
-Christopher Norris, author of Hunchback '88
-B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space
"And once finished, I felt like my tongue had been misplaced, guts heavy and expanded ... gums numb with a tongue that'd been put elsewhere, my mouth clean around a pipe weaving up through pitch and shadow ... and well past ready, primed for delight, waiting but knowing I had already been filled to skin; crying shit, hearing piss, fingernails seeping bile, pores dribbling blood, soles slopping off and out to meet a drain mid-floor ..."
-Christopher Norris, author of Hunchback '88
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First published May 30, 2021
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February 20, 2022
The stories in this book are transfixing, and even when things get ugly, you cannot peel your eyes from the pages. The information has been stitched into your system. These stories are straightforward, yet each provides a shock that will leave you standing open-mouthed and wounded. Both the bonded and the disconnected leave behind bloody and burnt remains. Despite the damage, there is an abundance of empathy in these troubled words.
February 6, 2022
This is a truly vibrant and unexpectedly poignant collection of horror short stories. Siebert writes with what I can only describe as a “nihilistic urgency”: Relentlessly charting out tragic and monstrous demises. However, rather than leaning into a dull pessimism, the micro-universes she creates here feel complete and flushed with affect.
There were some misses in terms of immersion and connection, but overall, Siebert’s talent is evident, and the fearsome power of destruction is fully felt in stories like “Ammon” (which gave me airs of the horror movie, Thelma), “Coping” (ExistenZ meets Jelinek), “Witches” (Ketchum’s “Gone” came to mind, but it becomes its own shade of subtle dread), and “Every Day for the Rest of Your Life” (astoundingly sorrowful, ugly, and my favorite of the collection).
This is a solid collection all around, and I use “solidity” somewhat cheekily, given the collection’s title. At hand we have a thorough exploration of what “bonding” does in terms of horror—a tethering of emotion through pummeling and aberration. While “bonding” is often taken as a loving and fruitful meeting of human kin, here, connection spirals into dreadful heights that make this one of the most honest explorations of how horror can lurk even in a tight and warm embrace. Brilliant!
There were some misses in terms of immersion and connection, but overall, Siebert’s talent is evident, and the fearsome power of destruction is fully felt in stories like “Ammon” (which gave me airs of the horror movie, Thelma), “Coping” (ExistenZ meets Jelinek), “Witches” (Ketchum’s “Gone” came to mind, but it becomes its own shade of subtle dread), and “Every Day for the Rest of Your Life” (astoundingly sorrowful, ugly, and my favorite of the collection).
This is a solid collection all around, and I use “solidity” somewhat cheekily, given the collection’s title. At hand we have a thorough exploration of what “bonding” does in terms of horror—a tethering of emotion through pummeling and aberration. While “bonding” is often taken as a loving and fruitful meeting of human kin, here, connection spirals into dreadful heights that make this one of the most honest explorations of how horror can lurk even in a tight and warm embrace. Brilliant!
April 2, 2022
Weird horror with its vivisected heart on its sleeve. Like internet gore videos shone through a literary gauze. Wounded human abstractions in shifting genre skins. A debut so up my street it’s at risk of impoundment. Can’t wait for Uncle Goddamn.
February 25, 2022
Not being a fan of splatter/gore/most body horror (and therefore not having read much of it), I knew going into this that there would be elements of it not to my taste (and my rating reflects that). What else I knew of the book in advance called to me, though, and I’m glad I listened. Siebert excels at swiftly building characters and sustaining tight narrative tension. There is also a thread of social consciousness running through these stories that I don’t often encounter in the admittedly limited patch of horror and weird fiction that I traverse. This is unfortunate because I think these genres are both well suited to accommodate social critique. It’s one reason why I like Joel Lane’s work so much. In Siebert’s case, perhaps it’s in part her background in journalism that serves her well in this regard; she certainly displays a journalist’s eye for detail and knack for expository compression in these stories. The humor when it appears is also effective—often just a quick sly barb you might miss if not reading closely enough—and it succeeds in grinding the knife edge off the horror. As is so often the case with story collections, though, discrepancies in style and uniqueness between the stories left me uncertain how I felt toward the collection as a whole.* It seems to me that Siebert wants to push the boundaries of horror, but to my mind she only fully accomplishes that in a few of these stories. While all of them are well written, and their often pithy, sardonic endings succeed in separating them from mainstream horror fiction, I’d like to see how much farther she can twist and malform the common tropes. Clearly she has the chops for doing so, and I look forward to reading where she goes next. Favorites: ‘Opportunities’, ‘Ammon’, ‘The Prime Minister’, ‘Marriage’, ‘Every Day for the Rest of Your Life’.
*If there is a commonality to these stories I might suggest something akin to the serial killer's curiosity towards and/or fascination with dying and death. There are many deaths in this book and possibly just as many types of reactions to those deaths.
*If there is a commonality to these stories I might suggest something akin to the serial killer's curiosity towards and/or fascination with dying and death. There are many deaths in this book and possibly just as many types of reactions to those deaths.
June 16, 2021
What I really didnt like about this book is I just havent read it yet but mags said she wanted a one star review. So here we are.
July 20, 2021
Shit this collection was good.
Horror is about loss. Loss of agency, loss of comfort, loss of love, loss of direction, loss of future, loss of goals, loss of desire, loss of innocence, etc etc etc. So to make people actually feel that horror, you need to make them care about what's being lost.
Maggie Siebert fucking CARES, and you can tell. There is so much longing and pain in this book. The emotional core stuffed inside these tight jagged stories is always burning brightly through, daring you to look away, making you pray for a happy ending even when you know it won't come.
In no particular order, the stories that stood out the most for me - Best Friend, Coping, Every Day for the Rest of Your Life (definitely my favorite of the bunch), Witches, and Smells
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Horror is about loss. Loss of agency, loss of comfort, loss of love, loss of direction, loss of future, loss of goals, loss of desire, loss of innocence, etc etc etc. So to make people actually feel that horror, you need to make them care about what's being lost.
Maggie Siebert fucking CARES, and you can tell. There is so much longing and pain in this book. The emotional core stuffed inside these tight jagged stories is always burning brightly through, daring you to look away, making you pray for a happy ending even when you know it won't come.
In no particular order, the stories that stood out the most for me - Best Friend, Coping, Every Day for the Rest of Your Life (definitely my favorite of the bunch), Witches, and Smells
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March 22, 2022
The last story is just about perfect.
June 17, 2021
The book starts with a quote from the "punk" band No Trend, while other punk bands were doing their own sort of rebellion, No Trend went beyond that to rebel against the punk rock orthodoxy of their time/place (early 80s near Washington DC.)
I first read Maggie in the Expat4 collection, after reading her story in that, I pre-ordered this book almost immediately. That story also appears here along with 11 more. These stories aren't so much "horror stories" as they are horrific stories with some very uncomfortable moments. A variety of different styles keeps this engaging, and I enjoyed all of them. The No Trend song mentioned previously always made me feel a bit uneasy while also having me think "Fuck Yeah", and this book provoked similar feelings which is high praise in my book. Not for the squeamish nor those simply looking for gore.
I first read Maggie in the Expat4 collection, after reading her story in that, I pre-ordered this book almost immediately. That story also appears here along with 11 more. These stories aren't so much "horror stories" as they are horrific stories with some very uncomfortable moments. A variety of different styles keeps this engaging, and I enjoyed all of them. The No Trend song mentioned previously always made me feel a bit uneasy while also having me think "Fuck Yeah", and this book provoked similar feelings which is high praise in my book. Not for the squeamish nor those simply looking for gore.
August 25, 2021
A very enjoyable collection. Dark, intense, and often funny, with plenty of details left tantalizingly open. The prose is mostly quiet and low-key, which IMO makes the horrific or bizarre events more effective. Highlights for me are probably: Messes, Ammon, Coping, The Prime Minister, Marriage, and Everyday for the Rest of Your Life.
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December 24, 2021(No more star ratings-just read the review)
BONDING got on my radar as a reddit recommendation. I did a post about my favorite short story collections and someone assessed my preferences and strongly urged me to give BONDING a go. They hooked me up with a tweet from the author giving away the PDF, so it went on the Kindle and I surprised myself by trying it immediately. Now here we are, just 2 days later; it's under 200 pages and a solid collection of stories. I will be keeping an eye on Maggie Siebert so I can read more work.
*MESSES- person gets a job at Bodyworks Sauna which is a front. The job is to clean up the rooms after they are used. They encounter a stranger. (body horror)
*OPPORTUNITIES- A person leverages every bad situation into a new opportunity.
*AMMON- I loved this story. Compelling story; interesting execution. (grief/loss/unexplained phenomena)
*THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION- This was a great read while the whole "forgiving student debt" debate is a hot political topic (12/24/21) (satire/black comedy)
*BEST FRIEND- (animal triggers) Poor Sadie the dog. (body horror/fungus? Mold? Spores?)
*COPING- This story wasn't for me. I lost my footing somewhere and I couldn't navigate it.
*THE PRIME MINISTER- (apocalyptic horror)
*SMELLS- (body horror) one of my favorites and gave me the most visceral, memorable reaction (takes place in an office setting)
*WITCHES- two boys find a body around Halloween time. A mother is in denial. Missing child (grief/loss)
*BONDING- Flash fiction/unsettling/Father-Son
*MARRIAGE- compelling, disorienting, ouija board? The living harming the dead/intrusive thoughts/suffocation-asphyxiation/inappropriate feelings toward their daughter's murderer?
*EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE- I actually had to quit reading this one. (animal triggers)
BONDING got on my radar as a reddit recommendation. I did a post about my favorite short story collections and someone assessed my preferences and strongly urged me to give BONDING a go. They hooked me up with a tweet from the author giving away the PDF, so it went on the Kindle and I surprised myself by trying it immediately. Now here we are, just 2 days later; it's under 200 pages and a solid collection of stories. I will be keeping an eye on Maggie Siebert so I can read more work.
*MESSES- person gets a job at Bodyworks Sauna which is a front. The job is to clean up the rooms after they are used. They encounter a stranger. (body horror)
*OPPORTUNITIES- A person leverages every bad situation into a new opportunity.
*AMMON- I loved this story. Compelling story; interesting execution. (grief/loss/unexplained phenomena)
*THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION- This was a great read while the whole "forgiving student debt" debate is a hot political topic (12/24/21) (satire/black comedy)
*BEST FRIEND- (animal triggers) Poor Sadie the dog. (body horror/fungus? Mold? Spores?)
*COPING- This story wasn't for me. I lost my footing somewhere and I couldn't navigate it.
*THE PRIME MINISTER- (apocalyptic horror)
*SMELLS- (body horror) one of my favorites and gave me the most visceral, memorable reaction (takes place in an office setting)
*WITCHES- two boys find a body around Halloween time. A mother is in denial. Missing child (grief/loss)
*BONDING- Flash fiction/unsettling/Father-Son
*MARRIAGE- compelling, disorienting, ouija board? The living harming the dead/intrusive thoughts/suffocation-asphyxiation/inappropriate feelings toward their daughter's murderer?
*EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE- I actually had to quit reading this one. (animal triggers)
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August 3, 2024i’ve read a lot of short horror stories and none of them are like the ones in this book. so so unique and p much impossible to put down i loved it so much !!
June 28, 2021
I first came across Maggie via her movie recommendations sometime last year. Immediately discovered she's into real shit, then found out she makes real shit. I read Every Day for the Rest of Your Life when it was published to Self Fuck and it just consumed me, lodged itself into my gut like a shiv or a sharp piece of rebar.
Bonding is agony. Maggie's much less interested in the goo in these stories (though it may be plentiful) and much more concerned with making you feel each and every weeping wound, subjugating you with blunt force trauma and acute malaise and misery. Regardless of if the stakes are a family's love, a wage-worker's life, a relationship, or the survival of the human race, when things go bad, they get completely and totally fucked; the ending always apocalyptic and all-consuming. Bonding cements Maggie not only as a talented slop-jockey, but also as a purveyor of high-concept dehumanization.
Bonding offers total obliteration. Just heinous vibes. You won't be able to lend it to a friend fast enough.
Bonding is agony. Maggie's much less interested in the goo in these stories (though it may be plentiful) and much more concerned with making you feel each and every weeping wound, subjugating you with blunt force trauma and acute malaise and misery. Regardless of if the stakes are a family's love, a wage-worker's life, a relationship, or the survival of the human race, when things go bad, they get completely and totally fucked; the ending always apocalyptic and all-consuming. Bonding cements Maggie not only as a talented slop-jockey, but also as a purveyor of high-concept dehumanization.
Bonding offers total obliteration. Just heinous vibes. You won't be able to lend it to a friend fast enough.
August 10, 2022
My god.
Maggie is deranged.
Good for her, this shit rocks.
Maggie is deranged.
Good for her, this shit rocks.
June 15, 2021
In almost every horror story, there's the "turn" - the moment it becomes clear that something awful is happening, and that this is what it is, and that it will only get worse. Maggie Siebert's stories have turns, and lurches, and tumbles down guts-slick stairways, and they will lock you in a dark room until you don't know when. And you'll be glad for it.
March 6, 2022
Solid collection of gritty horror that spans a range of splatterpunk, sci-fi, psychological drama and weird fiction. Many of the tales are gruesome yet rooted in stories of human desperation and madness which really opens up the collection; Siebert treats her characters not as props to enact gorehound atrocities upon but as developed people who often don't deserve the fates they've been given (or even if they do, it's in a roundabout, disproportionate way). I particularly liked "Ammon", a morbid tale of a boy with supposedly apocalyptic premonitions told in a vague interview/interviewee style format and centers the grief of a family and marriage breaking apart because of sickness and disability. I also loved "Witches", a sort of murder mystery without a resolution that spins the witch trope into its own thing, and of all the stories in this collection feels the most properly weird. Not everything works - some of the stories are too ephemeral to really get anything from, such as "The Prime Minister" which I personally didn't get the point of - but overall this works, especially because Siebert trades out boring nihilism for the very human pain that is at the core of the horror genre and exposes it openly as the "true" horror of these stories. Solid and upsetting in the right ways and I am very interested to see what's next in store for this author!
"I have been roused from death so many times I have stopped feeling dead. The dead suffer endlessly at the grief of the living."
"I have been roused from death so many times I have stopped feeling dead. The dead suffer endlessly at the grief of the living."
July 23, 2021
In hindsight, this was not a good choice to read at work,
June 12, 2023
These stories are brilliant in their lack of full explanation… in that they’re the sort of things we all have nightmares about. The story “smells” will always hold an exceptionally special place in my nightmares.
Especially because I’m always having nightmares about my teeth. Witches was like long forgotten lore told by neighborhood kids, if it had been brought to life… er… death.
Siebert is brilliantly talented at the pictures she paints in so few words. I was as impressed as I was grossed out. Win win win.
Especially because I’m always having nightmares about my teeth. Witches was like long forgotten lore told by neighborhood kids, if it had been brought to life… er… death.
Siebert is brilliantly talented at the pictures she paints in so few words. I was as impressed as I was grossed out. Win win win.
April 18, 2022
"She stained the house with her sorrow, the walls forever glazed with its nicotine patina.
The doorbell rang.
The witch cackled."
I love splatter/body horror stories. Those are some of the most gruesome stories and I always find myself seeking those ones out. I want to be disturbed while reading these and Maggie certainly delivered.
Every single short story was wicked and I devoured every single one of them. Usually, with short stories, you'll find a few that you like and move on with your day. I enjoyed/loved every story. There was never a dull moment within these pages. They were twisted, cringey (in a good way), and f**ked up. What's not to love?
The doorbell rang.
The witch cackled."
I love splatter/body horror stories. Those are some of the most gruesome stories and I always find myself seeking those ones out. I want to be disturbed while reading these and Maggie certainly delivered.
Every single short story was wicked and I devoured every single one of them. Usually, with short stories, you'll find a few that you like and move on with your day. I enjoyed/loved every story. There was never a dull moment within these pages. They were twisted, cringey (in a good way), and f**ked up. What's not to love?
April 11, 2024
This short story collection was fun to read. Most of the stories are punctuated by shocking descriptions of disturbing situations, which made me smile with nervous anticipation. The contemporary authenticity of the prose contributed to my immersion as well as my amazement, while reading exceptionally disconcerting paragraphs. My favorite story was 'Smells' because it was both obscene and comical. This is one of the best titles from Apocalypse Party. I hope to read more from this author in the future. And I highly recommend this book, if you're into this kind of thing.
February 8, 2023
An outstanding collection of visceral, deep cutting short stories, that will leave you feeling like your emotions have been broken on the wheel.
For fans of Negative Space, Frisk, Tender is the Flesh etc
For fans of Negative Space, Frisk, Tender is the Flesh etc
July 23, 2021
A beautiful and demented collection of short stories, like a fucked-up hybrid of Kelly Link and Amelia Gray. Standouts for me were the great splatterpunk(porn?) opening tale "Messes", blending capitalist degradation with some of the grossest shit I have ever read. "Ammon", which turns parenthood of a difficult child into a horror movie, but worse because it will scar your entire existence and deform your soul. "Best Friend" takes a key scene from The Thing and making it into an aching story of loneliness and love and the final tale "Every Day For The Rest Of Your Life" grapples with some really harsh shit, edging almost into Nicole Cushing territory, but with more uncertainty and ambivalence and a bone-deep honesty that grips you by the heart. Not since Cody Goodfellow have I read a collection with such a tight collection of bangers, none of which overstayed their welcome and all of them having something terrible and true to say about this band of confused apes trapped on a dying planet.
August 1, 2021
Icky good; grody good.
August 18, 2024
i love it when horror is horroring!!! i love when the Gross is there to underline the point and isn’t the whole point itself!!! many deeply horrifying bits that were executed with the sparsest of language, which is a FEAT.
my favorite stories were Opportunities, The Prime Minister, Bonding, and Every Day for the Rest of Your Life (my favorite of the collection, i think). i didn’t enjoy Marriage (format does it a huge disservice) or the alumni one (stupid) but everything else was extremely well-written even if it didn’t resonate with me, and i think if you enjoy gross horror, at least one of these stories will rocket your brain into another dimension.
very proud to have this on my body horror display!
my favorite stories were Opportunities, The Prime Minister, Bonding, and Every Day for the Rest of Your Life (my favorite of the collection, i think). i didn’t enjoy Marriage (format does it a huge disservice) or the alumni one (stupid) but everything else was extremely well-written even if it didn’t resonate with me, and i think if you enjoy gross horror, at least one of these stories will rocket your brain into another dimension.
very proud to have this on my body horror display!
November 7, 2023
The stories told mostly through dialogue, with some brief action descriptions, like a film script - particularly great.
Sturdy collection. No skips necessary.
Nice hopping around to genres. Some sci fi type work in here, fantasy, thriller stories with no horror elements at all, then straight up gnarly body horror. All fits though. Careful editing went into the sequencing you can tell. Nuanced writing throughout. Soft sci fi or fantasy storytelling punctuated by the gore.
Short and re-readable.
Sturdy collection. No skips necessary.
Nice hopping around to genres. Some sci fi type work in here, fantasy, thriller stories with no horror elements at all, then straight up gnarly body horror. All fits though. Careful editing went into the sequencing you can tell. Nuanced writing throughout. Soft sci fi or fantasy storytelling punctuated by the gore.
Short and re-readable.
July 19, 2021
Holy moly. One of the best story collections I've read in a really long time. Ammon is one of the best stories I've ever read. Period. Full stop. Just absolutely incredible. Banger after banger in this one. If you are at all into horror you are doing yourself a disservice by sleeping on this one.
August 9, 2021
Review to follow after I process my trauma.
June 2, 2022
Best collection of short stories I have read in a long time! Sits alongside Cheever perfectly for me
August 11, 2021
My grandma, bored, asked me to find a book for her to read. We're in the middle of nowhere. I brought along Bonding, and promptly finished it, so I offered it up—despite a strong sense that stories involving mopping up cum and breaking down entirely wouldn't exactly be her sensibility. She promptly handed it back to me and said, "This girl isn't well."
Maggie seemed perfectly adjusted when we spoke a month back. I told her the stories in Bonding reminded me of the darkest stories in Raymond Carver's catalog. In the summer of 1984, Haruki Murakami met Carver, a hero of his. Murakami was early in his writing career and never even bothered to tell Carver they shared a profession; Carver only knew Murakami as an admiring translator of his work into Japanese. Following their visit, Carver wrote a poem dedicated (and addressed) to the shy man with whom he shared black tea and smoked salmon. In it, utilizing apostrophe, he claims they, "Slipped / into talk of pain and humiliation / you find occurring, and recurring, / in my stories."
All this to say that the above is a perfect description of Sebert's themes. The Seattle Times makes the conjecture that Marukami was thinking of “So Much Water So Close to Home,” a Carver story where two men who find a woman’s body on a fishing trip and wait two more days before reporting it to the police. There is a story in Bonding with an eerily reminiscent plot.
There's much that is familiar in Bonding. Many stories seem to be plucked from science fiction and horror movies and then improvised upon, like Coltrane doing "My Favorite Things." These stories are not for the faint of heart.
To put it another way, as I did in the intro to my interview with Maggie (https://alexwexelman.substack.com/p/f...), the bonding the characters do in the eponymous short story that Siebert’s debut short story collection takes as its title is something like the bonding between Oedipus and Laius. The mood is imbued with the crimson and dread of Abraham and Isaac marching up the mountain. The fear and trembling, though, is never assuaged by a happy ending. In Maggie’s stories, you can’t tap your heels together to make a nightmare disappear. Bonding is unflinching. It’s violent; it’s disgusting; it goes for the jugular, slashes it, and stands silently, fixed on the blood emptying out.
Maggie seemed perfectly adjusted when we spoke a month back. I told her the stories in Bonding reminded me of the darkest stories in Raymond Carver's catalog. In the summer of 1984, Haruki Murakami met Carver, a hero of his. Murakami was early in his writing career and never even bothered to tell Carver they shared a profession; Carver only knew Murakami as an admiring translator of his work into Japanese. Following their visit, Carver wrote a poem dedicated (and addressed) to the shy man with whom he shared black tea and smoked salmon. In it, utilizing apostrophe, he claims they, "Slipped / into talk of pain and humiliation / you find occurring, and recurring, / in my stories."
All this to say that the above is a perfect description of Sebert's themes. The Seattle Times makes the conjecture that Marukami was thinking of “So Much Water So Close to Home,” a Carver story where two men who find a woman’s body on a fishing trip and wait two more days before reporting it to the police. There is a story in Bonding with an eerily reminiscent plot.
There's much that is familiar in Bonding. Many stories seem to be plucked from science fiction and horror movies and then improvised upon, like Coltrane doing "My Favorite Things." These stories are not for the faint of heart.
To put it another way, as I did in the intro to my interview with Maggie (https://alexwexelman.substack.com/p/f...), the bonding the characters do in the eponymous short story that Siebert’s debut short story collection takes as its title is something like the bonding between Oedipus and Laius. The mood is imbued with the crimson and dread of Abraham and Isaac marching up the mountain. The fear and trembling, though, is never assuaged by a happy ending. In Maggie’s stories, you can’t tap your heels together to make a nightmare disappear. Bonding is unflinching. It’s violent; it’s disgusting; it goes for the jugular, slashes it, and stands silently, fixed on the blood emptying out.
July 12, 2021
Shout out to blast beats!
It’s been a while since I’ve coursed through in as little time as this. Really enjoyed each little world I was brought into and some stories satiate that need for visceral or horrific ideas and/or imagery.
Favourite stories: AMMON and COPING.
The final story feels like it was the only one that could book-end this series, great choice.
If you like horror, why wouldn’t you want this?
It’s been a while since I’ve coursed through in as little time as this. Really enjoyed each little world I was brought into and some stories satiate that need for visceral or horrific ideas and/or imagery.
Favourite stories: AMMON and COPING.
The final story feels like it was the only one that could book-end this series, great choice.
If you like horror, why wouldn’t you want this?
April 10, 2025
I enjoyed this reading, because the stories are so FUCKING CRAZY, but please, don't read it during your lunch time, like a did
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