Lapland, or Film Noir

This story is a review for a movie of the film noir genre. It becomes fantasy when the film critic becomes a part of Lapland in the end. My initial reaction to the story was that it seemed a lot like Sin City, the movie that came out in 2005.

I think that as the film critic becomes a part of Lapland, he loses reality. He slowly becomes one of the psychopaths in the story which are prone to "blackouts and spells of amnesia." This has caused parts of his review to fade away. Why are his memories starting to fade around deaths?

I am so confused!

I want to know why Wonderwall is a fantasy story. Unless you count rabid hallucinations of gay men grinding on a dance floor to a wack techno beat and then morphing into flames as fantasy, then this story did not really have any fantasy elements. The narrator is a loser druggie who hallucinates/dreams about fire. Perhaps this symbolizes somthing, but what?

Also, what does the title mean? And what was David doing in the men's room at the gay club that she wasn't supposed to see? And what are Black Boogers (or whatever they're called)?

Zora and the Zombie

First of all, whoever wrote this story is totally crazy... Just kidding! I had no idea Zora and the Zombie was about Zora Neal Hurston and her interest in Haitian zombies, so I was completely surprised that the story was grounded in biographical reality. The title isn't just alliterative to be cute!

I would like us to discuss the issue of real historical figures in fantasy literature. Is Zora's character more accessible because the reader knows she is a real person, and so can visualize her experience in the story as one in real life? What fantasy elements prevent us from really believing these things happened to Zora? Do they undermine our belief in Zora's existence and the facts of the story?