These are not the droids you are looking for.

Hi there! If you’ve come looking for Kira Butler: that weirdo who writes speculative fiction for young adult and new adult readers, you’re going to want to move on to www.kirabutler.com

She’s hanging out over there. šŸ˜‰

(kirabutler.wordpress.com is a stopgap solution for me to maintain my jetpack connection, but it’s not my primary website. hell, IĀ don’t even use this thing. Srsly, come find me a http://www.kirabutler.com/blog/)

Horror and Hangovers: Do You Work at Innsmouth?

Should forward this to my former company.

Horror Novel Reviews

Lovecraft gave us all many a horror in ā€œThe Shadow over Innsmouth.ā€ From froggy fish people to urban decay and alienation, the subtle horrors of racial crossbreeding (umā€¦), and unabashed verbosity.

But the dilapidation of Innsmouth and the terrors within just might mirror your own freakish, everyday terror.

Your job.

I ask, do you work at Innsmouth?

Your ride to work might well mimic Robert Olmsteadā€™s bus journey to Innsmouth. The road there was, objectively, nothing to worry about. Just the ocean and some lonely beaches. Nothing ominous there.

Well, not to Olmstead. What he saw was foreboding, with a doomed sense of what waited for him ahead. And he was right.

What do you see during your commute?

Sterile office parks, or big chain store clusters that are sixty percent parking lot, forty percent overpriced Swedish furniture?

To some, these sights are unworthy of any ill repute. But whatā€¦

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