What is "The Weird Zone"?
Image from the Lovecraftian game, "The Sinking City" Welcome to the "Writng from the Weird Zone" Blog. In this post, I explain what the Weird Zone is; in a later post, I will explain why I have chosen to write from this particular territory. The Weird Zone is a category, not a genre. It encompasses all the things one might encounter in a day that starts out strolling down Normal Road and then, perhaps subtly, perhaps suddenly, turns off into territory that is decidedly Not Normal. You start off walking downtown past the folks you pass everyday on the street, you take a turn at a corner you don't usually take, and every once in a while you notice people in yeah-I'm-a-spy trenchcoats. Sometimes these people take a scan of your face with something like a highway cop's radar gun, and they say to themselves, "not the one we're looking for." Sometimes these people have green skin, or compound eyes like an insect. Instead of storefronts advertis...