Analysis Of Crypt Curiosity

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• Dapper Cadaver This was a Texas story. I wrote it about the same time that I wrote Crypt Curiosity. There was one of those mighty fearsome Texas thunderstorms going on, and I imagined what a dance with death in physical form might be like. This one has taken me yeeaarrsssss to edit it just the way I like it. Well, worth it, I think.

• Crypt Curiosity I wrote this story after a very hot halloween evening in Texas. (I got sunburned. Yes. On Halloween. Unreal.) Towns on the border have weird little rules, like you only trick or treat on one street and only until 5pm. I didn 't know this the first year I was there, and we ended up being out til sunset. I saw the man I describe in this story. …show more content…

This was one those October stories I so enjoy writing, and this one creeped me out pretty good. What is most disturbing is how easily that Mantra came to me... almost as if Rhiannon herself had whispered it in my ear. One of the fun little inspirations for this story came from when I was an apartment manager years ago. A woman had stabbed her husband in the chest, she was taken away to jail and he to the hospital, and their two young children went CPS. Ultimetly, if you can imagine, I evicted them. They left all their crap in the apartment and what we found was truly disturbing. The place was absolutely filthy. The children had locks on their door and there was human feces and urine on the floor of their bedrooms. In the master bedroom, we found a two feet pile of pornography magazines carpeting the floor, sex toys and hundreds of snapped pictures. What was most disturbing was what we found in the closet downstairs, which was absolutely nothing, except one pull string light and a dead bulb. When I changed the bulb, I found the walls covered in red crayon with the words "Amy is ugly on the inside." This simple sentence has haunted me forever. So, in Mantra I had Rhiannon write her "truth" on the closet wall. Creepy

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