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Lentil-Cauliflower soup Recipe

Greetings. I mentioned making this on twitter and said I’d share the recipe if people were interested. I was not expecting people to be interested but here we are. It’s a mix of a few different recipes I’ve found with my own added twist on a few things. Hopefully you enjoy. If you make it […]

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Creating characters: The Dungeons and Dragons method

One thing we like to ask people is how they go about the arduous process of creating characters for their stories. While we’ve never had the same answer twice there have been a few standout answers and I’d like to discuss one of them today. It comes from our friend Charity Langley and it’s called […]

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The Conjuring 2

I know I’m a little late talking about this movie but I watched it last night as part of my Halloween Horror Night and boy do I have some stuff to say. This franchise is the perfect example of one step forward two steps back. For every single effective scene and beautiful cinematography trick, there’s […]

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White Empress: The music I never thought I needed.

I don’t normally do music writeups but this is different. I was recently introduced to this band and they’ve successfully two burning questions inside of me. “What if horror was thematically more metal and what if metal could be more cinematic.” Ok. So those aren’t questions I had but in retrospect I should have probably […]

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Pets of the Horror World.

From our twitter friend @tgshepherdvan Thor and Bambi are two rescue dogs saved from death. We are happy they’re still around   From Our twitter friend @thecalgee   This is Watson and we don’t know about you but we think he absolutely rocks that Fall Sweater. From our twitter friend @NicoleSpector Nicole had this to […]

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Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor is a 2012 game from Jasper Byrne. I would love to take the easy way out and describe it as a 2D Silent Hill but as much as I’d mean it to be a compliment, it would be doing a great disservice to what a great game Lone Survivor is. You play as […]

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The Zombie Story Checklist

Despite the relative young age of the website, I have received more Zombie stories than anything else. I have unfortunately not accepted any of them because of how generic they were. I appreciated how hard the authors worked on their stories, and there were some very interesting parts in them, but Zombies in general are […]

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Effective Villains- The Moral Event Horizon

Greetings all, Today I am going to deal with my absolute favorite trope- “The Moral Event Horizon”. A Moral Event Horizon is an act committed by a character that plummets our opinion of them so far away from “good” that it would be impossible for them to recover. This act does not need to be […]