"Repetitive tasks, the need to earn money, and low-level anxiety all made bigger gestures difficult; parties like the one you discovered would have acted as a necessary tension relief."
For @GraywolfPress Graywolf Lab’s games edition I wrote about escape rooms…
Also Agatha Christie, the reality principle, Jonathan Creek, and lateral thinking.
🆕 on Lab Games: @KitBsm's essay "Escaping the Family," about escape rooms, family vacations, and the "infinite puzzles" of marriage and parenthood. 🖇️ Read it here:
https://t.co/QAdEbHfy7y
Not to forget M.C. St. John's 'It's Tough Being a New Parent', in which the narrator struggles to get up to speed with their caretaking role... https://t.co/JXRf1Z9oxS
M. C. St John's story is for anyone who's felt discombobulated by the parenting experience, for new dads, for new mums, for people who aren't either, for people who like sci-fi and speculative fiction, and for those who don't – yet.👶🍼👨🍼https://t.co/JXRf1Z9Wnq