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The Best Books of Rachel Ingalls — Top Ten Favorite Author

    When I read a story or a novel and I enter its created world completely — with no outer distractions, and this mobile life we’re all living in tends to distract...

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6 Classic Modern Horror Novels — A Recommendation

Classic modern horror films and novels fill a need for people who want to experience fearful places, confront scary people (monsters), watch horrific things happen from the safety of their armchairs, theater seats...

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Happy Halloween

The Great Pumpkin is coming. I know he’ll make it this time. This photo is Eartha Kitt’n taking direction. I shriek: Mouse! (and she’s supposed to whip her head around really quickly a...

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The Bad Seed – A Classic Film Recommendation

Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don’t you think? I caught a showing of the classic suspense film The Bad Seed this past Halloween week on TCM the other night. There were no commercial ads...

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Halloween Tales

I try to read a short story, or part of a long short story, every single night. A good habit I started years ago. In the past couple months I picked three books...

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eBook: Mile 81 by Stephen King

  So, as most people in the known literary and popular culture universe know, Stephen King published an original eStory, Mile 81, today. Even though there are no deer in the story, I...

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Beltane — Original Screenplay Reading

I hope the first of May ushered in new thoughts and plans. Beltane is an ancient Celtic festival celebrated on May Day… …which reminded me of another bonfire from my past, a gathering...

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5 Books You Must Read — Recommendations

In the hectic world a good book can take me into a less stressful place even if it’s a suspense-filled mystery. This is the Southern Oregon coastline at dusk. Oregon has the most...

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