"Cleaver, Meat, and Block," by Maria Haskins In Black Static #73 in January/February 2020, that is, before the pandemic really hit (buy the issue as an ebook); described as must-read by Alex Brown of Tor (I think?); anthologized in The Best Horror of th… Read on blog or Reader lookihaveopinions Read on blog or Reader Short story: "Cleaver, Meat, and Block" look i have opinions April 22 "Cleaver, Meat, and Block," by Maria Haskins In Black Static #73 in January/February 2020, that is, before the pandemic really hit (buy the issue as an ebook); described as must-read by Alex Brown of Tor (I think?); anthologized in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 13 (Night Shade Books, 2021, edited by Ellen Datlow); read very well by Larissa Thompson for PseudoPod 745, February 19th, 2021 5,974 words Really well done, strongly recommended if you like rather grim trauma stories. (Spoilers follow.) I'm noticing a pattern in horror stories: a horror trope + a deeper, often more realistic horror. Zombies and revenge and cannibalism + post-traumatic stress disorder and human cruelty and masculine violence and individuals, as well as society, struggling to recover from a plague. Similar to "The Haunting of the Wilsons by Me and That Bitch Todd," or "Backseat Kiss," which depicts a vampiric monster +  the loss of self in a relationship. Like

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