“So, Craig Davidson and Nick Cutter finally meet! It definitely feels like there’s a thing going on here, two personae colliding. And the results are pretty good.
I didn’t get a million boners with this one like it seemed most folks did. I dunno, I think I’m a little fried on the coming of age horror thing. IT (the book and movieS), Boy’s Life, Stranger Things, My Best Friend’s Exorcist, even Cutter’s The Troop had some of that, although punctuated with awesome body worm horror. I like most of these things, but maybe I’m all set for a hot minute.
Also, there’s a turn here, and I NEVER see the turn coming, and I completely saw this turn coming. Which makes me think I was supposed to because, hell, I NEVER see them coming. But then I felt like the turn was revealed, then teased out as if it hadn’t been revealed yet. It was weird.
Also, I read most of this on an airplane where I was stuck next to someone who doesn’t know one of the primary rules: Middle seat gets armrests on both sides. This is a rule, people. If you’re in the window, you get the armrest on the window side, plus the window. Aisle, aisle-side armrest, plus the aisle. Middle? All you got is those armrests, and they’re yours, baby! Sometimes you just gotta fight for your right to party on a plane, which means subtly bumping into the aisle lady’s arm over and over until she takes the hint that she should act like a goddamn human being for once in her miserable life and surrender that 2-inch plastic armrest to someone who is living the hell of a middle seat. Seriously, how did no one do that math on this? Three chairs…four armrests! Perfect!
We went to the movies this last weekend, and Poonmaster Flex (my partner’s chosen nickname) was seated next to this dope. We’re in those reclining seats with cup holders, and he was like, “Are you using the cup holder on this side?” He put his cup on her left, his right, the shared armrest, instead of telling his son, who he was sitting next to, “Slide your cup to your left side. Then I’ll put mine on my left. Then we don’t have to fight over an armrest in this “luxury” theater.
But ultimately, this motherfucker took his shoes off during the movie. So all bets are off at that point. “