Fairy tale – Painted Blind Publishing

Fictional Author Cassius Wagner Gives Real Fake Interview About The Line Between Fiction And Reality

Readers of The Lightning Stenography Device will be thrilled to know that fictional author, Cassius Wagner, has had a most intriguing real fake interview (with apologies to Rick and Morty) with fantastic blogger Jason Denness. In it, Wagner discusses the line between fantasy and reality, the future of art, and THE LIGHTNING STENOGRAPHY DEVICE, his newly-released anthology, co-authored with editor Katherine Beauvoir and tech savant Enoch Azarias. You can read it

March 28, 2018

THE LIGHTNING STENOGRAPHY DEVICE has been reviewed on BOOKLIST!

Things are getting serious now, aren’t they? Click here to read the full text of the review, but here’s my favorite excerpt: It appears to be no coincidence that the device is often referred to by its initials, LSD. Meditations on existence, life, and death are wrapped in dreamy, ornamental prose, and the novel drifts from (relatively) straightforward narrative to fairy tale parable with similarly dream-like logic. This one is

March 2, 2018

V. M. Varga and the Boy Who Wouldn’t Lose His Temper: FARGO Season 3 As A Fairy Tale

What is it that makes certain television shows so gripping? What causes certain stories to stick to our ribs? The pathos, certainly, but as important as the pathos itself is the character who delivers it, whether hero or villain. The Coen Brothers have a particular talent for creating lively characters and invoking incredible pathos. From all light and dark shades of the comic spectrum, the Brothers are able to coax

June 16, 2017