2024-09-18 08:00:36 What inspired you to start writing? My fourth-grade teacher recognized my ADHD tendencies to constantly daydream and make up stories and encouraged me to write them down. While it took me a while to claim the professional…
2024-09-17 08:00:22 Welcome to Latin American horror! Latin American horror literature reflects human darkness. Beyond ghosts, what scares us the most is what we carry inside. It is not the monsters or the ghosts that add the disturbing component…
2024-09-16 08:10:45NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reviewed by Brooklyn Ann Butler. New England Magazine, National Library of Medicine, and now public domain. Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health. Synopsis: A woman with postpartum…
2024-09-15 08:00:30 By Tom Joyce As a novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, playwright, and theater director, John Patrick Higgins has explored the art of story-telling from many different perspectives. In this month’s edition of Nuts & Bolts, he discusses the counterintuitive…
2024-09-14 08:10:42NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal Reviewed by L. E. Daniels Disclaimer: An author and editor, I am not a mental health professional. Trigger warning: Addiction, grief, loss, animal death. Just before the COVID-19…
2024-09-12 08:10:19NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Dream’s End” by Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore Reviewed by Kyla Lee Ward Short story first published in Startling Stories magazine, July 1947. Variously anthologised. Story link: TRIGGER WARNING: This review addresses mental health. In…
2024-09-10 08:10:39NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: The Grief Hole by Kaaron Warren Reviewed bv E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses grief and trauma. A universal of all life, death touches everyone sooner or later. With inevitable losses follow forms of grief…
2024-09-08 08:10:32NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Shards: A Mental Health Charity Anthology edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake, RavensQuoth Press 2024. Reviewed by Stevie Morley Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health. Edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake with poetry…
2024-09-06 08:10:56NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “I’ll Be Gone By Then” by Eric LaRocca Iin The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, published by Off Limits Press; also reprinted in The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, published…
2024-09-04 08:10:51NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Survival Ritual” by John Edward Lawson In SuiPsalms, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012 Reviewed by E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health and grief. At the midsection and heart of John Edward Lawson’s…