Quote of the Week

Twenty years later I began working as an editor for Mandalay Publications in LA at a bilingual magazine called Estylo. One day I told the staff about my trip to Ensenada and the story I had written. They thought I was joking. Ensenada is not dark. It is not even the real Mexico, they explained, only the Baja Peninsula -- a safe, benign destination for gringos. For them, the real Dark Country is the U.S., which they had found so strange and frightening when they arrived here. And of course they were right. It all depends on your point of view.
--Dennis Etchison, Introduction to his short story "The Dark Country" in the anthology Summer Chills