What New Year’s resolutions have you made? Do you have any New Year’s traditions? What would you do if your baby was born pregnant? Is such a thing even possible? Would you bundle your baby up and leave them out in the cold to take a nap?
Christmas should be a time of love, joy, and giving, not a time of fear. But for those affected with certain phobias, Christmas is a time of unease and terror.
I woke up this morning with a mouse in my bed. A mouse isn’t something I want in my bedroom, especially not in my bed. Granted, it was already dead, and that is preferable to it being alive and running around. I’m assuming it was already dead when it ended up under the covers. And at least it wasn’t right next to me. Still, I will be changing my sheets today.
In what country do they eat KFC fried chicken for Christmas dinner? How would you like to be visited by a hooded horse with a skeletal head on Christmas? And then, no matter how much I don’t like them, we have spiders.
Nora Bird is terrified of death. Her parents died in an accident when she was just six years old, so she is obsessed with avoiding risk. Some would even say she is overly cautious. But still, she has a job with S.C.Y.T.H.E., the company that employs grim reapers.
The place is England, and it is 1919. The famous Alice from 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 is now a grandmother, and she has a granddaughter named Alyce. Alyce has been sent to live with Alice.
Christmas is a very special time of year. The giving of gifts and showing love for others is in the air. It is when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior. It is also the time of year we watch 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ and 𝑅𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑝ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑑-𝑁𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑟. But some suffer from Christmas/winter phobias that make this joyful season into one of terror for them.
In Ballyfinny, Ireland, a quiet and remote town, there is brutal murder that shakes the entire town. The murder is so awful, so horrendous that a special investigator, Dr. Alexander Gregory, is called in to see if he can find the perpetrator of the crime.
What would happen if your xenophobic character ended up stuck in a crowded elevator? Another character ends up with a severe case of poison ivy. Thanksgiving week, you get to write about a mother (or father) reuniting with their children.
The spookiest day of the year is just around the corner, and wicked creatures have been around since the beginning of time. You will find many of these creatures in the Bible and others in Jewish mythology.
