Posted inInstigation

Dark Promptings: Personal Horrors with Tim Waggoner

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…
October 29, 2011Posted inInstigation1 Comment
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

A Baby Costume for Halloween

This is probably the most literal Baby Costume I've ever seen. via benjikane.livejournal.com Imagine if you answer the door on Halloween night, and all of these little wrigglers whisper "Trick or Treat" in infantile glee as they reach out at you for some candy. And in the center of the undulating gyre, "Daddy" would just stare at you. This image is shared from the "Halloween Countdown" over on horror author Benjamin Kane Ethridge's weblog, Cloth's Chapel, in the entry for Halloween baby costumes.
October 22, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange3 Comments
Posted inData+Errata

Site Shift: New Page for MichaelArnzen.com!

I've changed hosts for my social networking hub -- from posterous.com to flavors.me -- because the latter has the minimalism and simplicity I have been aiming for. The domain remains http://michaelarnzen.com But some older links that invoked my old hub may no longer work, navigating you down into a level of Dante's hell that Dante never mentioned before -- called "Expurgatory" (never to be uttered aloud) -- for fear of driving the average man mad.  Other former links might be absorbed by spambots spawned from the android womb of Robot Justin Bieber, who lives in an underground bunker rumored to…
October 20, 2011Posted inData+Errata