The Official Tumblr for Matthew Keville, Indie Author. A blog of Dreams and Nightmares and love of life in the City.
And these are a few of my favorite things: fantasy and horror, beautiful things and sleazy things (some of which
are the same things), tabletop games, generous helpings of social
justice and general entertaining nerd stuff.
This review was first published on March 8, 2013, back on Dreams of the Shining Horizon. I bring it here for several reasons. First, I intend to bring all of my reviews over – I believe they have relevance to writing theory and my philosophy as a writer. I bring this review over first because it was the first and, in my opinion, one of the best on the old site. What’s more, this movie…
Chynara Madinkulova (long hair) and Aida Akmatova (bun) compete in the “Traditional Archery” category at the World Nomad games in Kyrgyzstan, which concluded last week.
Said games also include eagle hunting, horseback wrestling, and setting people on fire. Also this game where you chuck javelins at people to knock them off their horse.
It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.
Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people…
Hey, all. As promised, here is the first of the excerpts from my longest work, the horror novel Hometown: It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall. Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn…
Sarah Brannigan’s life has fallen to pieces at the age of forty-five. Her fairy tale marriage has ended, her job history has been a downward spiral since 2008, and she’s paying way too much rent to live in a tiny room in an apartment that she shares with five roommates.
To escape it all, she walks the streets of New York City, seeking out the hidden wonders of the…
Sarah Brannigan’s life has
fallen to pieces at the age of forty-five. Her fairy tale marriage has
ended, her job history has been a downward spiral since 2008, and she’s
paying way too much rent to live in a tiny room in an apartment that she
shares with five roommates.
To escape it all, she walks the
streets of New York City, seeking out the hidden wonders of the City.
And like many before her, she falls in love with Coney Island. Then one
day, she falls asleep on a boardwalk bench after a long walk in the hot
sun, and she falls into a dream. A dream that seems to reach into
Coney Island’s past. A dream of everything she wished for when she was
young. A dream whose effects linger even after she’s woken up.
Soon
the dream begins to take over as Sarah uses it again and again to seek
escape from her failed life. She’s getting everything she ever wanted:
youth, love, and adventure. But as she goes deeper into the dream, she
gets ever closer to nightmare.
