This article is from Issue 1 of HUBRIS: The Journal of Cultural Horror, December 2017. As I’m writing this it’s 13 November, 2017. Roy Moore, the Alabama judge who has been removed from the State Supreme Court twice, is standing in a special election to replace Jeff Sessions in the United States Senate. I have […]
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What Creators Owe Their Fans
This article is from Issue 1 of HUBRIS: The Journal of Cultural Horror, December 2017. On 1 January 2010, a woman named Melodi Dushane pulled up to a McDonald’s drive-thru in Toledo, Ohio. She wanted chicken nuggets. Unfortunately, it was early morning and the restaurant was only serving breakfast. In a video that went viral […]
My Life on Mars
The inability to sleep has always been an issue for me. I don’t call it insomnia because it’s not a condition that exists on its own. My chronic pain issues make it difficult for me to get comfortable. There are digestive problems that wake me up. I suffer from hypervigilance, which means that every unusual […]
Star Trek is Greater Than Star Wars
The original Star Wars film was released when I was 13 years old. I won free tickets, and a button that said “May the Force Be With You”, from the local newspaper. The contest was to draw a picture of a robot, and they published the winning entries. At that point in my life I […]