"When eels fuck, the earth shakes. That’s a hilltop saying, one I don’t use anymore."

Today! "The Hilltop Eel" joins 12 other lush and unsettling tales in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC-ECO HORROR ANTHOLOGY from @hedonebooks.bsky.social, curated & edited by @pegasusunder.bsky.social!

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I enjoyed most of the books I read in 2024, but ENTER THE AARDVARK (Jessica Anthony, 2020) won all the awards of my heart. I was transported. I was cackling. I was sending pictures of my favorite passages to friends. It is so, so funny. Please read it.

Loved this. Prose like a drumbeat. The fearsome prairie, the monster(s) in the dark. "Knowing the night through the window of a truck or motel on familiar roads, it’s hard to lose your way. / Not impossible."

(Painting by Minna Sjöholm—not Alberta, not the prairie, but I liked the vibe.)

me: great! we've finished the first third of this story! what's going to happen next, brain?

my brain:

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