While calm scenes would suddenly burst into incendiary action unannounced.
There were so many details that walked such a comical, absurdist edge that could have veered into funny but managed to be all the creepier for that reason.
Go into this blind, if you still can. It is so worth it.

I happened to love that so much of the story was left untold, completely up-to-interpretation & that so many of my expectations were subverted (especially with the way it was scored, scenes with dramatic, screechy crescendos that seemed to choreograph a jump scare would fizzle out --

The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman

"There is an old man watching me, now on my side of the curtain, although he still looks like a shadow. His edges are all smudged, he looks like a charcoal rendering that someone has carelessly smudged with a thumb and I can’t make out much detail."

Never underestimate the power good a white woman's toxic positivity. Gross.

Hi Eryn!

Maybe that's the secret to our famous politeness... we're all just hiding the darkness within under a veil of "sorry's" 😂

And if you've never dealt with the kind of long-term break from writing I've described above: congratulations, you are either a magically-ascended being or life has been EXCEEDINGLY kind, but I'm happy for you.

Now that I'm writing again, I have this insane wealth of inspiration to carry me through. An embarrassment of riches. Are they all winners? Ha, no. But I've got enough here to keep the fire going for a long winter, if needed.