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Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
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Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

This might be a short read, but it is by no means an easy one. Trust me when I say this book will rip your heart out, store it in an ornately carved box, and deliver it to Laurel for her to dance off with it into the sunset, gleefully laughing as she rehydrates herself with the tears of readers. (Laurel is not The Evil Queen, but after this book I’m pretty sure ‘reader’s tears’ must be a core part of her diet.)

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Amateur Dramatics: a Short Story
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Amateur Dramatics: a Short Story

He groaned, gritting his teeth and trying to cover his ears, to block out the chittering, chattering sound above him. The high trills and tap-tap-tap on the floor. Open auditions. Hehated open auditions. They drew out the worst of the worst, and subjected him to days of listening to untalented hacks try and prove they could sing and could dance and could act. Most of them couldn’t. And sometimes, those that couldn’t cried and wailed as they were ushered out of the building. Open auditions meant he had no rest whatsoever.

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The Influence of War
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The Influence of War

War, huh, what is it good for?

Turns out, war might actually be good for movies.

I’ve always been fascinated with films, and Hollywood, and the influences behind those films. Not always the people making them, but the wider social context. The ideas which filter in from the world and are put through a lens to present as make-believe. And horror, more than anything, is one of the strongest genres to do that.

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iZombie & Euphemisms for Oppression

iZombie & Euphemisms for Oppression

Please note, the below contains spoilers for all five seasons of iZombie.

iZombie, a show about a young woman with a bright, perfect future ahead of her who gets that all ripped away when she is turned into a zombie, was recommended to me a long time ago. I put it off for a while due to lack of time, but with a global pandemic, I found myself with time, and read the first graphic novel before binging the show.

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