Suspended Animation
Hallowe’en is deeply entrenched in my psyche, its influence reaching back to my earliest memories.
Hidden City
The stories, essays, dreams, and delusions of Marc Kevin Hall
31 October 2008
30 October 2008
A prelude of sorts…
In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, there is a story about an insecure playwright who dreams of climbing a dangerously high spire, and fears falling. In his reverie he speaks with the Lord of Dreams. Man: It’s all getting to be too much for me. I feel I’m out of my depth. I’m scared. I’m scared [...]
18 October 2008
Church and State and Satan
Today on the phone an otherwise very pleasant woman called me the spawn of Satan. She did so in connection with me asking her if she planned to vote yes or no on Florida’s proposed constitutional amendment number two: Florida Marriage Protection Amendment This amendment protects marriage as the legal union of only one man [...]
5 October 2008
Nightwalkers and other people
Readers, I am flattered by your kind response to “Climbing to the Moon.” Losing Legionnaire was difficult for me (and for my dear, dear friend Laura, who was his long-distance surrogate mother). That his story touched so many of you — I’ve had more visitors this week than in a normal month — means a [...]