Fuel for the Myth Engine #5
What bee has been buzzing in my bonnet this week?
It’s been a dry couple of weeks at the Myth Engine but the crust is starting to rupture and flake off of my creative process and I’ll have some more weird and wonderful tales for you soon.
What’s been fueling the Myth Engine this week —
Zyntale — Literally everything they do. A large part of why I love this author’s short psychological horror so much is because it plays on the social media structure of substack notes.
Each short short story is done in first person and begins with an everyday-life sort of situation so it is initially hard to tell you are in a piece of fiction instead of someone’s social media post about their life. Zyntale always always drags me in with the opening situation. Even though I see what they are doing, I am hooked beore I realize it is a fiction every single time.
Bravo, Zyntale! I’m learning things here!
The new Young Sherlock series on Prime — It’s not Basil Rathbone and it is not Benedict Cumberbatch but it is a fun, fresh take on Moriarty and Sherlock. Have I mentioned that I am working on a Watson and Lestrade pastiche?
Still loving on Hundred Years of Solitude and The Coming of Conan. The latest book haul included Un Lun Dun by Mieville, Mists of Avalon by Bradley, and Changing Planes by LeGuin.
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