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This is a community of horror authors that is unlike anything else out there. They welcome newcomers. There are over a dozen published authors who…
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Fiction: Hunters (a Horror Story)
Shortly before I got caught for everything, I spoke with a hunter one rainy evening near the end of my shift at the Co-Op where I worked as a cashier. I…
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Why Do You Read? What Makes a Good Story? Q&A With Twelve Authors (Part Two)
What makes a great character? What makes a great story? Why do you read? I asked these questions to several authors and game designers that I’m lucky…
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What I Learned After Reading 100 Short Stories: Part 1
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Why Do You Read? What Makes a Good Story? Q&A With Eleven Authors (Part One)
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Never Break the Spell The Story Is Weaving—Part 1
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Why Do You Read? What Makes a Good Story? Q&A With Twelve Authors (Part Two)
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Using Style to Convey Meaning in Joan Didion’s “Play It As It Lays”
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Can You Adapt RPG Modules into Short Stories To Save Time?
I had intended to write some short stories based closely on pre-written RPG modules as an experiment. There’s a dozen reasons to do this, but the…
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Why Do You Read? What Makes a Good Story? Q&A With Eleven Authors (Part One)
What makes a great story? Why do you read? I asked these questions to several authors and game designers, and their answers were eye-opening.
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Using Style to Convey Meaning in Joan Didion’s “Play It As It Lays”
Play It as It Lays, by Joan Didion, is a gut-wrenching story about numbness and despair, and is a case study in using style to convey meaning.
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Never Break the Spell The Story Is Weaving—Part 1
What is Language? Our brains are astonishing. They are capable not only of experiencing the world, but of simulating that world. And actually, they…
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Dizzying Pressure in Jessica Knoll’s “The Favorite Sister”
The Favourite Sister is about a group of highly successful women who are participating in a reality show that ostensibly celebrates feminism. In truth…
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Conflict-Driven Storytelling in Discovery of Witches
Discovery of Witches is a TV series based on some novels about witches, vampires, and demons coming into conflict with one another in the 21st century…
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Fiction: The Fabulous Cat
Once upon a time, a reader stumbled onto a story and it was incredible but they could scarcely understand why. The beginning was bizarre. It did not…
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