My Favorite Listmanias

A Tour Through The Body: Fun (And Gross) Books For Kids http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2A4QJIPCDFAXR/ Greatest Movies Involving Decapitation http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3NXLXMCDRJMJ9/ Top 25 Weirdest Things You Can Buy on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2WE01ST4Z4YY0/ So You're Going to Jail... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1DX0MGC6DXB5T/ Dead, dying, maimed, deformed, opened & freakish bodies http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2W2Z82A63239C/ At Least the Titles are Funny http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1WJNRJITTX6VM/

Stoker Award Photo Album

Here's my long-awaited web album, full of new snapshots from my experience at the HWA Conference & Stoker Banquet: gorelets.com/gorelets/Stoker04_WEB/ You can also read the press release that my school, Seton Hill University, is sending out far and wide to celebrate the achievement. Nice! Enjoy! -- Mike Arnzen

Girl on Crutches

she won't say how she broke them but the boys don't hold the doors for her anymore and nobody signs her cast her armpits ache from the handles and she feels as hollow as the numb caverns inside the plaster that pinch her and the bones will set crooked -- her legs perpetually as bent as her mind -- and his wrung neck which neither splint nor plaster can hold fast or bind any stiffer than his own rigid musculature Explanation: I found that list of offbeat phrases in the "Strange Visitors" contest awhile back amusing, and began to think…