Letter From Somewhere
Lynda E. RuckerOff-the-beaten-track musings from a writer of strange stories about travel, nature, art, books, film, running, walking, psychogeography, hiking, history, the weird, the uncanny, the gothic, ghosts, hauntings, memory, and so much more.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights
I started writing this before the summer solstice, and I wrote the below about its approach, but now it’s in the rearview window:
I must confess I view it with all the horror of a Sergeant Neil Howie stuffed in a wicker man on May Day, bot...
A Portmanteau Post
Everyone loves a good misheard lyric, right? So that’s why I am starting this letter by telling you that it was only this past weekend, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, that I realized that the opening line of the song “I Think We’re Alone Now...
Everything Was Stories
I love all of my subscribers, but I haven’t said a thank you to my paid subscribers for a while, so here it is: Thank you! I appreciate each and every one of you so much. Your support genuinely means a lot to me, and it genuinely helps. Tha...
Speaking in Tongues
Back in the spring of 2001, I boarded the wrong train in Romania. I had been unable to correctly decipher the departure boards and had made a mistake. It wasn’t wrong as in it was going in the wrong direction, but it was a local train that...
Do they have a word for it?
I used to have a book called They Have a Word For It. It was all about words that don’t exist in English, ideas and concepts that we don’t have a single word or phrase to describe. The so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,1 in what is sometimes...
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Shirley Jackson-award winning writer of many things, including three collections of strange stories: The Moon Will Look Strange, You'll Know When You Get There, and Now It's Dark.
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