It’s the Spooky Season – Finally

Getting cheeky with Candyman, Candyman, Candyman In October 2020, two months after I started an MFA in Creative Writing Program, I was diagnosed with Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that feeds on stress – hours of reading and writing, freaking out over deadlines, and the obliteration of consistent sleep and self-care has kept me in a constant flare-up for […]

The Halloween Project

Halloween means so many different things to different people. For some people it is a chance to be an idealized version of ourselves – superhero, Disney princess, vampire, or sexy…well these days there are sexy costumes for anything you can think of – I’m holding out for the sexy sloth costume myself. Sometimes a costume is a chance to remember […]

Grief and Dean Winchester the Beagle

Last year my father got prostate cancer  (I found out through a message on Facebook from one of his neighbors in Kentucky) and within a few weeks he was gone.  I was glad he was not suffering anymore but I was left numb and confused and missing a piece of me.  Two months after I lost my dad, my beloved […]

Monsterpalooza 2016

My new day job (last year I ended up moving from the house the ogre built back to the house the monsters built), my training to become a yoga teacher and my blossoming belly dance career have taken the majority of my time, energy and soul the past 6 months. Unfortunately, this left little time for sleep, friends and monsters […]

More Murdered Tweets

While I make my pale gothic butt sit down and finally write a long overdue new blog, here are a few tweets I wrote for MurdertheTweets.  Hopefully, they will keep you horrifed, amused and satisfied until the blog is up. And if writing horror stories with only 144 characters sounds like fun, go follow Murderthetweets on Twitter. She smiled to […]

Fangs, Fangs and More Fangs

“WHEN OTHER LITTLE GIRLS WANTED TO BE BALLET DANCERS I KIND OF WANTED TO BE A VAMPIRE” – ANGELINA JOLIE At 14, my two favorite worlds – Goth and Horror – collided for the first time when I saw The Hunger.  In a visually disturbing yet gorgeous piece of cinema, the opening sequence of the movie switches frantically between Bauhaus […]

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! I’m slowly overcoming the Holiday inertia and a new real blog post will be up real soon (scouts honor). While I work on my next post, here are some more fun Murder Tweets I’ve written since Thanksgiving: Topic:  Cats – Once sacred gifts to the great feline deity, the bones of the mummified kittens were sold as cheap […]

Scary Fun with Twitter

One of the things I look forward to each week on Twitter is getting a horror writing prompt from my friend Murder the Tweets @murderthetweets.  Here are some of the mini-horror stories I’ve had fun making up using 140 characters or less. Theme of the week: Soda – The porcelain creatures fixed the fountain so that instead of soda it […]

Natacha’s Fiend Features – The Wolf Man

Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters A man who’s pure of heart and says his prayers by night May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright — “Howl” by Florence & The Machine *Each month I will have a guest post from the […]