Lowkey Hellish
Newsletter featuring literature, reflections on culture, and the crosscurrents of myth and modern life.
May 11, 2026
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4 min read
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm doing something completely different. For the first time, I'm sharing something that hasn't been already published to V13.net. Instead, I'm sharing my work in progress, my upcoming book, Torturer. Erin reminded me that Dickens used to serialize fiction, and Chris encouraged me to embrace it wholeheartedly. And so here we are, the first part of what is going to be the series of Torturer.
May 4, 2026
2 min read
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm sharing a bit of flash fiction from another one of our writers, Michael Wilson. And I've also got the latest episode of my podcast MAKE // BREAK to share with you, this one with Mark Winters, a Texan aerospace engineer turned singer-songwriter.
Apr 27, 2026
3 min read
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. The last few weeks have been genuinely hellish on my end — thank you for your patience. This week's lead story is a horror short where a serial killer called The Sculptor turns song lyrics into death puzzles, and forces a metal frontman to solve them before someone he loves dies.
