Horror and escapist fantasy seem to match nicely as themes in fiction. There's a psychotheurapeutic reason to think they might. I can name two examples of fiction where they match well. When both themes are present they support each other in interesting ways. Already Free suggests one reason
John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story" describes a basketball court and has a nice image of the leaves there: ... Leaves pile up against the fence, higher and higher, piles that explode and jitterbug across the court in the middle of a game, then sweep up
(Spoilers for Drawing of the Three.) I'm slowly reading through The Dark Tower following the Kingslingers podcast (which is, yes, now three years old). I just finished Drawing of the Three. This book had a lot of great minor characters. To name a few: 1. Jane the flight
I have an interactive fiction game that should really be a short story, and merging the branches seems to make sense. The story as I've set it up is fairly linear with lots of split-and-merge patterns. The outline I've written is longer than my list of
I tried writing the hard part first. It didn't come out how I expected. It's not clear what comes next. Do I want to scrap the draft and try again? Do I want to continue on and find a new interpretation of this character? A new