http://behindthewainscot.com Weird Fiction. Weirder writers. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:34:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET BECCA DE LA ROSA     SOME NOTES ON THE EISENBERG ESTATE WILLOW FAGAN     BIRDHOUSE KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM     EXOSKELETAL LAURA ELLEN SCOTT   SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "" }); http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=230   FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET   BECCA DE LA ROSA      It was neither a bird nor a plane. Callista and I sat on the roof garden, drinking cold, clear beer and discussing lust. "What are we going to do?" Callista asked, meaning a tapestry ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=229   EXOSKELETAL   LAURA ELLEN SCOTT      The-the-the-the-the-the-the buggo kid, he was hiding in a crawl space behind the hall closet and shoulda been found way sooner since there's a freaking draft coming through the false wall. Which, by the way, is just a piece of ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=228   BIRDHOUSE   KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM      The imaginary nest has long been overtaken by worms, which the birds have plucked from the soil. Severed, the worms have finally learned to grow more of themselves out of each cut sustained from the bird's beak.      It is not ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=227   SOME NOTES ON THE EISENBERG ESTATE   WILLOW FAGAN      It's probably best if you don't read this. You see, my aunt N——— carefully constructed this bundle of pages to contain a menace that has been stalking our family for generations. I'm fairly certain that ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=226 The Reading guest editor: Jonathan Wood   INTRODUCTION JONATHAN WOOD     I: THE HERMIT PAUL ABBAMONDI     II: TWO OF SWORDS FORREST AGUIRRE     III: THE STAR BARTH ANDERSON     IV: THE TEN OF SWORDS BARTH ANDERSON     V: THE SEVEN OF SWORDS JACQUELYN BENSON     VI: THE FOOL HAL DUNCAN     VII: AUCUN IMBÉCILE JE BERRIEN HENDERSON     VIII: THE TOWER PAUL JESSUP     IX: HIEROPHANT BRIDGE JAY LAKE     X: SEVEN OF PENTACLES J. M. MCDERMOTT     XI: ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=217   INTRODUCTION   JONATHAN WOOD      Strip lights that pull down a sheen of glass between you and the world. The sterile buzz of the air conditioning—that chill that is never quite there. Step outside, step away. Onto the streets. Out into the real—and, yes, that ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=215   SIX OF SWORDS   ERZEBET YELLOWBOY      This is about time, and the mind. This card has many faces. Are you the hooded woman, concealed and enclosed, detached from the turbulence around you and yet suffering by it? Are you the boatman, steering onward through ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=214   THE SUN   DAMIEN G. WALTER      Marian took a train out of the city as the day grew bright. She had been back on Earth for over a year, but had avoided the light of the sun, even filtered through London smog. She ignored ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=213   THE HANGED MAN   CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE      In the 1912 Qabbani deck, completed shortly before the designer's death in a Tangiers brothel, the Hanged Man, most unusually, takes the place of The World at the terminus of the Major Arcana. Qabbani, a profligate student ... http://behindthewainscot.com/?p=212