2025-11-09 Sun
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- Read The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. Very good!
- “Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.”
The Husbands (Holly Gramazio)
Fun and definitely original story! I have been reading far too little fiction for years, and can’t justify spending too much unenjoyable time any more. This wasn’t!
You wait ages for the one, then 203 come along at once
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right.
Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.
There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch)
The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich
The one who turns everything into double entendres (‘I’ll weed your garden’)
And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touchBut when you can change husbands as easily as a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?_
“Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.”
Ryan Moulton (@moultano.bsky.social) on Bluesky Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You’re telling me that there’s a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?