Amanda is a young artist whose painful past has made her bitter and callous. A sucker for street vendors, one afternoon she trades a few five-dollar bills for a single earring holding a rusty, dangling bauble. Almost immediately, Amanda is plunged back into the worst memories of her past, and…
Sometimes, after the relationships we had in life, it’s more comfortable to be passive aggressive in the afterlife. Sometimes we’re just lazy, or tired, and it takes too much ghost-juice to show up in person…so to speak. Then, there are those of us who think our method of communications is…
Brimstone roasting on a lake of fire, Krampus nipping at your nose, Tiny tots with devilish eyes aglow… We’ll find it hard to sleep tonight.
Recently, a couple was charged with making human empanadas at their Lovett-like food shop in Brazil. While the attached recipe somehow calls for ground turkey and avocado cream, I couldn’t help thinking about the fresh kidney and tongue puff pastries that mama used to make. We’d all crouch around the…
Is there anything more magical and mysterious than a large, old library? The smell of yellowed pages. The slight mustiness of the worn covers, no matter how clean the library is kept. The rows upon rows of spell books and ancient incantations. The cauldron kept conspicuously in the middle of…
I overhead this guy at the bar the other day. He was sitting with two of his friends, and telling them a very loud story about his ex-girlfriend. I won’t bore you with the horribly discriminatory, expletive-filled details, but – long story short – she keyed his car. OOoooh! A…
Every now and then, a horror movie comes into your life that really hits home. As I’ve progressively become less social over the last several months, I’ve relished the opportunity to come home at the end of my work day and curl up on the couch with a good book…
What is the law? Are we not men? No. No, we’re not men. We’re man-sized animals with the strength of five men and three-inch long claws. We could stalk the average man for miles through heavy jungle and take him down before he even saw us coming. Remind me why…
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