Private Nightmares, Digital Ghosts, and Anti-Productivity

Dear Living Dark reader,

Recently several short pieces—mini-essays, in effect—have spontaneously come out of my pen, or rather my keyboard. Sometimes I share such things on social media or at my author website. Today I decided to group three of them here and share them with you.

They are nominally unrelated to each other. Then again, I’m a great believer in the truth that Donna Tartt noted when commenting on the eleven years it took her to write The Goldfinch, which had its origin in things she ha...