(Offutt’s father was a writer known to me from his contributions to the Thieves’ World anthologies. I’d heard he’d also written porn. I hadn’t known it’d been the majority of what he’d written, or such a big part of his inner world.) Book 15: Black Butterflies by John Shirley. Spatterpunk short stories rooted in dark sexuality bound up with death and violence. Got to be a bit much for me, though the story “Cram” was profoundly horrific and haunting.
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