fiction | Swann + Bedlam

Why Is Everyone Doing This? Flashbacks

More often than not when I pick up a new book these days I am baffled and bored. Nearly every story is written using the same structure....

Sanitary Fiction: FUCK IT

The gross trend of sanitizing fiction is ever-growing thanks to this plague of wokeness that seems to have spread to every aspect of our...

A Rant About Being Upset And Upsetting

When is it okay to upset people? And by “upset” I mean to make people think or question something, to be slightly distressed, or...

Book Review: White Fuzz by William Pauley III

I’ve been trying to read more fiction these days but it's really slow going because most of it is bad. Most of it has HUGE info dumps,...

Book Review BleakWarrior by Alistair Rennie

In a weird and decadent world, superhuman beings known as Meta-Warriors are compelled to seek out and destroy each other without truly...

Book Review: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν – Callimachus I managed to slog my way through about a quarter of this tome before giving up from a sense of...

Crafting A Dynamic Character

Lying And Stalking You might have a good story but if your character is flat it can ruin it all. After all, who cares about a boring...

The Facebook Author Phenomenon: A Cautionary Essay

B.J’s Bile In this series of essays, B.J. Swann spews out hatred and gives you the straight dope on everything that sucks about the...

Wet Bones | John Shirley

A genuine splatterpunk classic that blows most other horror books out of the water. Tom Prentice has to identify the strangely emaciated...