The Dust Lounge

Thoughts and meanderings. Chatterings about writing, reading and shiny things that distract me. May contain cats and cheese.

On reading: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

A slasher tale that punches you in the gut with a fist full of heart.

A round up of some of my favourite recent short stories and flash fiction from around the web

Five of the best fringes in fiction. (Also, I may have gone and cut one of my own).

On horror set on the sea and stuck in the ice. A few suggestions to give you chills.

Katsu’s historical horror brings a supernatural tale to the real life tragedies of large boats in larger seas

Looking for your green-fingered advice on how to help my poorly looking Calathea Musaica

Reflecting on a week of semi-hiatus from social media, and asking for your fiction website suggestions and recommendations.

On finding the book to break the reading funk.