Reading Weird Horror #9 from @undertow.bsky.social@seanbirnie.bsky.social, a killer. I love the vibe, love what happens, love the ending - one of the things about weird horror is to stop right before the part where, in a normal story, you'd get the big reveal. And:

Look at this first sentence: "She was sitting in one of the booths in the corner of the pub, a candle in the wine bottle before her, the tip of a cigarette glowing between her knuckles, a half pint of brown beer beside the candle." I've been...

That’s such a good way of putting it - stopping just before the place where a normal story would give the reveal. I’d not thought of it like that before.

So good!