Midnight Snack
Midnight Snack is a column that’s obsessed with our obsessions–our sugared, caffeinated, late-night journeys of the mind, wherein one tab on our web browser leads to another, and then another. Every first Friday of the month at midnight, a new Midnight Snack piece will trace an old fixation spiraling anew, or something familiar suddenly defamiliarized. In the age of access, what do these journeys reveal about our past, our times, and who we are? Lunch Ticket‘s newest column will try to answer those questions every first Friday of the month.
Runaway Regression
/in Midnight Snack / Ahsan ButtIt suddenly comes back to you late one night as you struggle with a story about a haunted house. You’re writing in that way where you’re fixated on the next line, but nothing feels right, because deep down you’re expecting that next line to fix everything that’s wrong. You’re in your apartment bedroom, lit by your laptop…