New Fiction 2023 – June

“Isaias” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Look, I don’t know.

“A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road” by Iguanadon’t (2016)

June was so long ago now.

Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

So much has happened.

“Wolf in sheep’s clothing” dir. Yea An (2023)

So much avarice…

“War of Colors” dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

And indulgence.

“Double King” dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

I said so much about these things.

“How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended” dir. HISHE (2016) 

I don’t think we need to tread over this ground again.

The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Not this time, anyway.

The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

We can wonder about space.

Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Like the real possibility that someone out there is wondering if you exist.

We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Whether they are alone in the universe, outside of their own sphere.

The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

What might you be like?

The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Are you like them?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Do you have the same concerns that they do?

The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Do you share the same parts?

The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

They might be out there.

Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Or caves.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Think about caves.

Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Some are here and gone so quickly that they’ll never be discovered.

A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Whole other caves are so ancient that they must contain some unknowable horror.

The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Maybe more than one.

No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

I’m sorry I go to horror, I’ve just run into a few stories like that.

Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Ancient parasites, aliens, some shape in the darkness you don’t want to see.

The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Not my thing to go into caves, personally.

Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Or space for that matter.

Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Or the ocean, stay outta that place.

God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

It’s beautiful but it’s not beauty we’re meant to see.

1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Kind of a faith situation, I guess.

The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Have faith that it’s beautiful in the pitch black.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

We’re coming to the end here.

The Simpsons – “My Mother the Car Jacker” (2003)

Time has escaped me once again.

The Simpsons – “The President Wore Pearls” (2003)

Flown away like a little bird that shouldn’t have been caged in the first place.

Fox’s Peter Pan & the Pirates – “The Coldest Cut of All” (1990)

But inevitably, another little bird comes along, and I need to try and get a handle on it once again.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds – Season 1 (2022)

See you for the next flight.

Tales from the Crypt – Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Love,