Puppet House

Damn, I’m making a lot of mistakes right now. I spent the weekend dissecting a collection of movies and novels, desperately in search of a story. I seem to have arrived at the idea that I can simply cobble together a series of plot elements from other people’s work and plunk my characters into the mix and voilà! Insta-novel! As if the characters have nothing to do with what happens to them, as if they exist apart from the world I’m building instead of in it.

Deep breath. This is what happens w...