Inappropriate Conversations

Perhaps the true will of God is written between the lines.

Whether a typing exercise might become a manifesto.

(A Neosurrealist Revising a Will from His Death Bed)

The Author, 1979-1986

While this neo-surrealist, and formalist, short story dates back to 1986, it was World Storytelling Day 2016 that led me to read it out loud. 

#IC 181

It's definitely a cliche, but this is based on a true story.

The concept of "reunion" can generate a very specific type of anxiety. For me, it has always been an underlying sense of wanting to be there and wanting to be invisible at the same time. That paradox has inspired essays, some short fiction, and this poem. 
"Disappear Here" (1989)

122: 'Past Tenths' of 'Disappear Here'

For this perspective on how modern horror movies have squeezed out traditional thrillers, I've called the selection a 6-pack while sneaking in a few extras within the anthology film entry. The essay was written in 1999 and shared on an Inappropriate Conversations podcast in 2012. 

The films:
A Cold Night's Death
Carnival of Souls
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Scarlet Claw
The Other
Asylum
The House That Dripped Blood
Trilogy of Terror

#IC 103: The Thriller Is Gone