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What Kind of Mother

Cannibalistic Crabs and Missing Children Author: Clay McLeod Chapman Madi Price claims that she can read your future in the palm of your hand, but she really reads your needs, your emotions. Consider her a cheap therapist. A well-meaning liar, barely making ends meet, back in the hometown she forsook, trying to stay involved in her adult daughter’s life. Her daughter, however, is more interested in her father, who after years of abandonment has suddenly found religion, an ideal family, and is sanctimoniously perfect. It seems that Madi doesn’t have much to offer anyone anymore, and so she offers hope under [...]

2024-02-19T10:25:01-07:00February 19th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Zombie Bake-Off

A Cruel, Samey Attempt at Horror Comedy Author: Stephen Graham Jones What happens when a group of Pro-Wresters arrives early to their venue, only to crash a soccer-mom style baking event? You send them to the back room . . . where they unfortunately eat infected donuts and turn into the living dead. From here, all you need to do is accidentally lock everyone in the building, block the loading dock, and scream and run around a lot. Honestly, it’s a concept that could have been cute on the big screen. Think of my all-time favorites: Zombie Strippers and Sharknado. Sometimes [...]

2024-01-21T17:06:17-07:00January 21st, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Black Tide

It’s The End of the World as We Know It Author: KC Jones Beth is a car wreck of a person: all broken parts, sputtering starts, and failed journeys. Her mother is the one who came up with the analogy, and Beth knows that it fits; she is haunted by her failures, the broken friendships, the failed jobs, the lost opportunities, the hopelessness of it all. While house sitting for a rich family at a fancy beach town, she does it again. She reaches out to connect when she shouldn’t and finds herself drunk on champagne, in bed with the solitary [...]

2024-01-13T13:36:06-07:00January 13th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |
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