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Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers

Published by Michael Arnzen in Instigation on May 4th, 2004

+ Write the final scene in a book about Armageddon.
+ In painstakingly close detail, appealing to all five senses, describe a rotting human head. When you reach the end, reveal the context for its appearance — one which sends the reader right back to the beginning.
+ What is the filthiest place your avoid in your day-to-day life? A nasty corner of the basement? A restroom in your office building? The dump you drive past on your way to work? Choose the worst. Now imagine that something evil resides there. Write about its emergence.

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Blackout

Published by Michael Arnzen in Online Gizmo of the Month on May 4th, 2004

So you think you’ve got what it takes to survive the mindless zombie hoard? Think again. Your boom stick can only help you so much when you’re cornered in a fenced in lot at night…in the middle of a blackout. Not easy!

Check out this mindless — no, brainless — high quality first person shooter from the publicity crew for the Dawn of the Dead remake (their full site also contains a password guesser and a virtual autopsy gizmo!):

http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/experience/blackout.htm

Tags: zombies

The Thing About Tentacles

Published by Michael Arnzen in Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems on May 4th, 2004

it isn’t their ocean slime
shimmering green in the sun,
nor the long ropiness of their floppy
tendrils that terrifies me. it isn’t
the way they’re lined with suckers
or cilia or scales. it’s not their alien
feelers, autonomously whipping wild.
no. it’s just the way they seem so
limber, so strong, yet they have no
bones for leverage
except maybe my own

Shocklines Bargain

Published by Michael Arnzen in Data+Errata on May 4th, 2004

Just saw that Shocklines Bookstore is offering a neat package deal for the new Grave Markings limited along with Charlee Jacob’s book, Soma. Buy both together and you get a huge gift package for free: two novels, a rare poetry chapbook and three great horror magazines! A great way to get Delirium Books’ Dark Essentials.

Speaking of Shocklines, Grave Markings is #2 on their bestseller list this week, with 100 Jolts following nearby at #7. Thanks to all of you reading this who have picked up my books…I’m happy to have soiled you with my sickness.