Good Boy
by Charles Holdefer
I don’t always listen to my dog because he can be a whiner but last night we were talking about the possibilities of afterlife and accounts of near-death experiences where someone travels down a tunnel toward a bright light which opens onto joy and sometimes a reunification with lost loved ones.
In our morning reading: book recommendations from Jenn Shapland, new writing by Elvia Wilk, and more.
Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Charles Holdefer’s Agitprop for Bedtime: Polemic, Story Problems, Kulturporn and Humdingers. Publisher Sagging Meniscus Press describes it as a “portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults.” And David Leo Rice hailed it as “Funny, creepy, and disorienting in all the best ways.” What follows is a particularly unsettling case study…