CHRIS HOLM

Are you busy on Sunday, September 13th, at 8PM Eastern? Trick question. Of course you 're not! It's 2020! Now that we've established you're available, howsabout you join me and a kickass lineup of fellow readers for a Virtual Noir at the Bar? There'll be cocktails, music, stories, and almost certainly not pants! Best of all, it's safe as houses—specifically, yours—and doesn't cost a dime. All you've gotta do is pour a drink and  click the link . Hope to see ya then.

Hey, guys! It's been a while. Seven months since my last post, to be exact—but, to be fair, it's been a nutty seven months. You may notice I've updated my site since you last visited, with an eye toward greater compatibility and ease of navigation on a variety of devices. If you're wondering where the sidebar (which features news, contact information, and links to social media, among other things) went, give the icon at the top-left of the home page a click. My archives date back fifteen years, and as such, were plagued with link rot . If you happen across an old post that seems like it's missing a link, I probably excised it because it was nonfunctional. "But Chris," you might be thinking, "that sounds like a preposterous waste of time! Shouldn't you be writing?" To which I reply, "Oh, did I fail to mention? THE INSANELY AMBITIOUS SCIENTIFIC THRILLER THAT HAS CONSUMED MY EVERY WAKING HOUR FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS IS FINALLY, GLORIOUSLY DO...