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Tag: Suburban Nightmares

This Mortal Coyle
The dark entity known as 'The Forgotten' speaks with Deirdre Coyle's player avatar in a screenshot from Disney Dreamlight Valley.

The Forgotten from Disney Dreamlight Valley

By Deirdre Coyle • November 5th, 2024

This is suburban horror: the daily grind of forgetting oneself, losing oneself.

Always Autumn
Wirt, Greg, and the bluebird Beatrice head deeper into the woods in a still from Over the Garden Wall.

The Loveliest Lies of All

By Autumn Wright • November 3rd, 2024

Not what, but where is over the garden wall?

Past Presence
A still from Sex and the City episode "The Baby Shower" shows a woman sitting on the floor changing a baby's diaper, grinning like a jack-o-lantern at the camera.

Dream Vacation

By Dr. Emily Price • October 31st, 2024

The suburbs are conformity, and they’re also, for people around a certain age, parenthood.

Noise Complaint
A cropped image of a boy and girl holding hands on a school dance floor, both of them dressed in their best formal clothes.

Marilyn Manson, Middle School Dances, and Small Town Fear

By Ben Sailer • October 30th, 2024

I can’t remember if I left and went home after hearing the rules of the game, but I do remember refusing to play, without saying exactly why I didn’t want to join in.

Funeral Rites

They Feed on Fear

By Elijah Beahm • October 29th, 2024

“The inspiration behind playing as monsters is very personal. As a youth with an obvious disability, I found that I did not fit in, and I felt akin to the monsters in pop culture and media.”

Feature Story
In a detail from the movie poster art for the film The Stuff, a man screams as light green goop flows freely from his eyes and mouth.

Nothing But Respect for My President Whipped Crème

By Orrin Grey • October 25th, 2024

Does each peak hold beautifully from kitchen to plate, as the can promises? Is it sure to impress? Will it make my family love me?

Feature Excerpt
A close-up on the Stranger Things character Lucas, his face set in determination.

A Journey Through the Upside Down

By Phillip Russell • October 24th, 2024

Lucas’s reality, much like my own, is flattened when we fail to acknowledge his varied experiences from the rest of the boys.

Feature Story
A still from I Saw the TV Glow shows Owen watching their friend Maddy stare transfixed at a television, both of their faces bathed in the glow from the screen.

Thoughts for Sale

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2024

I have been struck by how much the prison and the suburb serve the same purpose.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2024

By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2024

The suburbs, they’ll getcha!

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