Status Updates From A Sick Gray Laugh

As much as the Ligotti influence is present, this feels like the opposite of "Nethescurial" (one of the finest tales in the weird canon). Mechanically, the focus is on writing instead of reading. More subjectively, while Nethescurial's writing feels like being lost in a maze, this feels more like reading about the steps to build a maze. We'll have to see if it ends up working.

Have I lost my capacity to read fiction? I can see the stylistic similarities to Ligotti or Michael Cisco, and yet that now that style isn't enough to get me to push through on an opening that's up its own ass about the in-story "author," their mental health and publication history, and what they're NOT going to write before telling us about the grayness they see in the world. It's like an anti-hook.