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    Horror Before It Was Cool
    Horror Before It Was Cool
    Horror Before It Was Cool
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    Horror Before It Was Cool

    By Jonathan W. Thurston and Weasel Press

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    Vegan restaurants, independent book stores, punk rock concerts, all of these are great settings...for terror. This book features hipster horror, a look at what horror could look when told through the subculture of coffee, organic food, and going against the grain. Welcome to horror...before it was cool. Featuring stories from: Kari Ann Ebert, Be

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeasel Press
    Release dateJun 2, 2020
    ISBN9781948712767
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      Book preview

      Horror Before It Was Cool - Jonathan W. Thurston

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      Horror Before It Was Cool

      Edited by Jonathan W. Thurston

      Copyright © 2020 Jonathan W. Thurston and individual authors

      All written and visual works remain the sole property of their creators. 

      They are free to use their works however they see fit.

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      Introduction

      Jonathan W. Thurston

      Dead Girl Blues

      Kari Ann Ebert

      Chuth-Who-Lu

      Beulah Vega

      My Curious Dog

      James B. Nicola

      James and Jackie

      John Power

      Everlasting Impression

      B. A. Mullin

      Everglades

      Clare Bercot Zwerling

      Looking

      Pat Brothwell

      Send a Hipster to Catch a Hipster

      Wondra Vanian

      The Book

      Patrick Desrochers

      Krousher

      Rye Jaffe

      The Write Way

      Leigh Fisher

      Long Pig

      Laura Wheatman Hill

      The Only War Around

      Nicholas Karavatos

      Bios

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      Jonathan W. Thurston

      Welcome to the first volume of the Before It Was Cool series! As a self-proclaimed hipster myself, I kept finding myself returning to a discourse in my writing community: what would hipster noir look like? We imagined coffee instead of booze, meeting at a café instead of a bar, taking an Uber instead of a taxi, and gay sex as opposed to the heteronormative damsel in distress. In that conversation, I tried reimagining other genres in a hipster world: fantasy, sci fi, Westerns, etc. That spawned this series. I wanted to start with horror since that was my personal specialty. I asked writers to re-envision horror tropes through a hipster lens, and the results are astounding.

      Some writers here take a parodic approach, taking popular horror narratives and making them comically hipster. Some take a more serious approach, showing how horrific a world could be with a hipster flair. Some even show being hipster to be the horror itself. The writers produced short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. And the mix of representation is great with these authors, too, and I do like diversity.

      So, regardless of if you’re coming here as a hipster, as a horror fanatic, or just as someone looking for a hella good book to read, you’re in the right place. Take a puff of your vaping device, grab a cup of our organic coffee, and sit back in our locally made armchairs. And don’t worry about the blood splatters that might hit you: they were all humanely killed. You can trust us.

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      Kari Ann Ebert

      You come over every night like clockwork.

      No. More like bloodwork.

      I know it disgusts you, makes you queasy. Still you come and knock your angry knock.

      I can hear your slow breathing through the door. You say it helps you stay conscious. Learned it after the knitting circle she made you go to one night, and then some yoga broke out.

      Pranayama practice. Now it’s your go-to. When the dizziness overwhelms you like a wave, you breathe.

      You must be dizzy tonight. On the verge of being overwhelmed, I think as I press my ear against the cold door.

      I used to wonder how you could do it, but not tonight. Tonight, I’m numb. I try to remember how it felt at the beginning.

      You knock again. Angrier.

      I like to wait until I think you’ll break. It’s good for you.

      My chest flutters. A ghost of the former thrill.

      You slam the door wide when I finally unbolt it. You’re not here for games.

      I watch you spread the shower curtain on the floor. 101 Dalmatians. You saved it from the trash when you were an avid freegan.

      Too much effort, you’d said after a week or two. I’ll just shoot for zero waste.

      You sit on the bed. Legs wide. Trench coat still on. Black non-vegan boots on the edge of plastic. It’s ok. They’re second-hand, so you’re honoring the animal’s death.

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