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Allora Public Radio · Episode

Trauma is a poison, a creeping sludge with acidy burns that seeps into deep, old wounds to make them twitch and sting and paint the world in a lens of anguish. It makes us feel like part of us has d...

In this week’s edition of Novel Thoughts, Assistant Editor Lu Humbug delves into the works that played on genre expectations of mechanics and structure to elevate the experience and elicit unexpected,...

Manic Pixie… what? In 2007, a film critic for The A.V. Club , Nathan Rabin, began a running feature he titled “My Year of Flops”, where he would examine movies that financially or critically bomb...

     All too often in a novel, you have to remember that everything is put such a way for a reason. The story happens in a specific place, at a specific time, and involving charact...

This month, Novel Thoughts asks, “What Work of Media Surprised Your Expectations?” To begin, Managing Editor Vaughn R. Demont lets his Weeb Flag fly… This month's "Novel Thoughts" topic asks us to e...

Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...

     One of the lines that I remember most from the movie Jerry Maguire is “the neural pathways are set, which is way it’s so difficult for people to change.” When I’m reading a ...

Oscar Wilde is a requirement in English programs, and if you’ve ever been to the gay district of Toronto you’ve likely seen the statue of Oscar Wilde leaning up as if waiting for a cigarette to be lit...

Back in the day on my personal blog, I had a running “feature” I called “Justifying My English Degree”, a place where I would critique works of media, often popular or genre that would be ignored as “...

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"A'right buddy, pay attention, 'cause I'm only gonna tell you this story once." In The City, just beyond the gaze of humanity, dwell dragons, lycanthropes, vampires, sorcerers, gods, and the Noble Fa...

Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This week, our newest Assistant Editor, Lu Humbug, shares a creative work and the effect it still has on him to this day… What is a god? Since the beginning of stories...

Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, nex...

Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This month, Blackwarren’s staff will post a weekly piece exploring the works of media—whether book, poem, song, film, or television—that elicited tears, whether joyful,...

London, 1893. Technology is booming, but mystic creatures and their human liaisons, the Ember Bloods, are becoming scarce. With this decline, the wisdom of the past is fading away, leaving mankind wit...

Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility in style with the very first issue of Visibility: a Role-Playing Game Magazine created by the trans community! In this maiden volume, you are in for a real t...