September 28, 2020
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Jessica Drake-Thomas, whose book of poetry, Burials, will be released…
July 8, 2020
One of the most common questions authors face is a deceptively difficult one to answer: “Where do you get your ideas?” Yet, the answers to that common question can be almost as interesting as the resulting story. Welcome to You’re My Inspiration, a column dedicated to discovering what inspires a particular author and their work. Whether it be a lifelong…
July 7, 2020
Shirley Jackson was a Sagittarius who knew that arsenic goes best with sugar when serving blackberries after dinner. She raised demons into children, wrote with a broomstick, could identify the Amanita phalloide — the death cup mushroom — and terrified the world when she published a short story titled “The Lottery” in late June of 1948. Jackson was the type…
January 27, 2020
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with James Chambers, whose On the Night Border just made the…
October 1, 2019
Welcome to our favorite month and the High Unholy Days of October (as our friend and author Rebecca Senese calls them)! And welcome to the “Kasturi/Files Episodes” — 31 days of movies and mayhem here on Speculative Chic. As lovers of the frightening, the weird, the outré, the bizarre, we’re going to celebrate this delightfully spooky month by watching horror…
July 1, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Odyssey Writing Workshop Graduate Erin Roberts, whose short story, “Sour…
April 22, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Troy Harkin, whose twisted poetry collection, Casting Shadows, was released…
March 13, 2017
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, a weekly column where we gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we’re talking about dimension-hopping mad scientists, the latest installment in the Zelda video game franchise, a biography for one of the…