by Margaret Kingsbury In fairy tales, witches are often scary, though not always. They sometimes eat children, curse innocent bystanders, poison fair maidens. But sometimes witches are the arbiters of goodness. When two stepsisters approach a witch and one helps her and the other mocks her in “Diamonds and Toads,” for instance, the kind sister...
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Fiction: The Law of Conservation of Death
by Hailey Piper On the fifteenth birthday of your third reincarnation, you feel his breath on your skin. New skin, never tainted until now. At once the sky darkens, and balloons, gifts, and cake no longer matter as your lives come rushing back. You’ve turned fifteen before, but that’s the least of it. He’s found...
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October 4, 2019September 12, 2019Review/Recap
Review: Passages by Kelli Owen
Passages picks up right where Wilted Lilies left off; Lily May is being driven far from home, to Pennsylvania, where she will attend a school for children like her. Other kids who have powers. Lily soon discovers that not all of the residents of McMillan Hall have the same abilities she does, and not all...
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October 4, 2019September 12, 2019Friday's Forgotten Books, Review/Recap
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Wilted Lilies by Kelli Owen
Detective Travis Butler has been selected to interview Lily May Holloway. The reason? He isn’t from her town. He’s an outsider, and because he’s an outsider he doesn’t have any preconceived ideas about Lily May or some of the events she needs to talk about. This entire novella takes place in the police station. From...
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September 30, 2019October 2, 2019Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, horror, Latinx
Movie Review: Tigers Are Not Afraid
“We forget that we are princes, warriors, tigers when things outside come to get us.” Estrella is in school, working on an assignment to write a fairy tale, when shots ring out. Her class dives to the floor, taking cover until the violence stops. While she is lying there her teacher gives her three pieces...
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September 9, 2019September 8, 2019Uncategorized
Gettysburg Creature Feature Weekend
Until last week, I’d only attended crime fiction conventions. Entering the world of horror was an intriguing prospect, although it was apparent from the start that horror conventions are quite different from events like Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. One of the strengths of horror conventions is that they are multimedia. This means that there...