I am super excited about one of my stories from The Other Side of Despair being featured on the latest podcast episode of Random Transmissions. This podcast is super cool and you should go and check out all the episodes!
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Here is a great book on story writing that I’m currently reading.
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby
Dark Muse
I’ve plumbed the depths of darkest mire
Drug back hellish creatures with twisted tongues
And scrawled the words with blood and fire
That bellowed from their blackened lungs
Words that wiggle like a maggot or worm
Or creep and crawl on nimble spider legs
Into the mind they scurry and squirm
To spin their webs and deposit their eggs
Once they’ve infected they hatch and spread
And grow into creatures corrupt and vile
They taunt and haunt and spew their dread
Sleek and shadowy with bewitching guile
Too late to change the fate they’ve wrought
Too awed to stand against their might
Too shocked to fathom what they’ve brought
And much too scared to put up a fight
Their infernal words have come to blight
And by my conjuring I’m to blame
For I’m the wizard of the terrible night
Who knows each creature by its name
Time and Death
Eyes that grope the haunted cowl
And strokes the strings of a thin lined scowl
Unruly jest made with gleeful mock
And howls the strain of a ticking clock
You slinking wraith that moans and sighs
And whispers laughs through hated cries
The clunking clank of weighted toils
The clotted filth of graveyard soils
Wincing faces of Time and Death
Marked in rasps and ticking breath
Till the final knell rings loud and clear
And the death rattle echoes with every tear
Oh sweet life that has burned so bright
And flickered long with ghostly light
What sad charm we recall to sight
The melancholy affair that conjures night