The Romantic and Realist Paradox

Lessons from literary studies

Third World Exotic, First World Horror in ‘Nocebo’

Is the film’s sociopolitical message too deliberately played?

Terror, Beauty, Trauma in ‘Bird Box Barcelona’

When a sinister sublime weaponizes your emotional wounds

About Metafictions

Essays as temporal landings

Nonfiction

The Séance at a Wake

How do you tell a forbidden story? Draw the scene.

Half-Loves to a Whole New Year

New year’s eve at midnight. We just got home from delivering food downtown, tagging the kids along with…

The Anti-Library

Imagine an infinite anti-library of partial, unfinished, and discarded manuscripts by the masters of the written word.

Metafictions: Table of Contents

Preface