Do you like cheerleaders? Do you like aliens? Do you like urban legends? Well, then you're just gonna love my latest published short story, "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On," in which the Fighting Pumpkins Cheer Squad goes up against an alien invasion in a battle to the death, with the very fate of mankind hanging in the balance.
Some of you may have heard me perform this story live, since it's a favorite reading piece of mine (and how could it not be? I mean, really). For those of you who haven't, there's an audio version of the same story in this month's issue. Totally awesome.
... Can I say I don't even like to *think* that lady's name in front of a mirror because I'm afraid she'll gut me like a fish, annnd now I just read that and I am so creeped out. LOL, not even by the alien's aspect which gave me that twitchy 'world is coming to an end' feel but it was like okay, whatevs, let's see how they beat this. And then they pulled out the big guns and I started to get a creepy feeling, especially with the count down of cheerleaders while she was counting down. Oh man. Definitely more afraid of ghosts then aliens [when i'm sitting safe in my room, LOL] great short though.
[I tried not to give anything away in case someone checks the comments before reading so sorry if it's a bit disjointed, lol]
I never heard of Bloody/Hell Mary--didn't hang out with an "in" or popular crowd. I was with the nerds of that era.
I LOVE the idea of "Fighting Pumpkins". My son has had a pumpkin obsession since 2 or 3, and he's 16 now. I ended up buying as many pumpkin, halloween, witch, and pirate books as I could find, and THEN I had to work in dinosaurs.
The guy who runs California Carnivores (plants) started out with dinosaurs, and now has a nursery just outside of Sebastopol.
Wow. That ending really caught me off guard - the beginning was just absurdly humourous enough that I wasn't expecting such a grim ending. Totally unsettling, in a good way.
You have resurrected all my buried Bloody Mary trauma. I was an intensely impressionable child when two of my more mean-spirited friends told me about Bloody Mary. I spent the rest of our time living in the house where it occurred unable to go to the bathroom at night- or even go near the bathroom at night. I had to move to the bedroom farthest away from the bathroom on that floor.
But other than that, it was an amazing story. I loved it to tiny little pumpkin-flavoured pieces.
I'll live. I'm no longer five years old and therefore better at dealing with my overactive imagination. Like I said, I loved it, and I also shoved it in the faces of at least half of my friends!
Reading that in the wee hours of the morning? Not the best idea I've ever had. What with how I've already got nyctophobia going for me and all.
(I was WAY too scared to ever try the Bloody Mary thing. I don't think any of my friends ever did it. The sleepover thing for us was just watching Fern Gully and/or making crank calls to jack in the box and walmart.)
happy
April 6 2010, 03:58:39 UTC 7 years ago
[I tried not to give anything away in case someone checks the comments before reading so sorry if it's a bit disjointed, lol]
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I LOVE the idea of "Fighting Pumpkins". My son has had a pumpkin obsession since 2 or 3, and he's 16 now. I ended up buying as many pumpkin, halloween, witch, and pirate books as I could find, and THEN I had to work in dinosaurs.
The guy who runs California Carnivores (plants) started out with dinosaurs, and now has a nursery just outside of Sebastopol.
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But other than that, it was an amazing story. I loved it to tiny little pumpkin-flavoured pieces.
April 7 2010, 20:46:58 UTC 7 years ago
Sorry about that.
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April 7 2010, 13:12:22 UTC 7 years ago
(I was WAY too scared to ever try the Bloody Mary thing. I don't think any of my friends ever did it. The sleepover thing for us was just watching Fern Gully and/or making crank calls to jack in the box and walmart.)
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April 8 2010, 21:45:03 UTC 7 years ago
"Seanan is AWESOME. "
They all agree!
April 14 2010, 14:33:48 UTC 7 years ago
Thank you, honey.