Tag: Fantasy

  • Fear Is the Mindkiller

    Photo by Tofoli Douglas on Flickr Walk toward it. We had a fine time at our house the other night watching the iconic 1953 film Invaders from Mars. With our CGI-jaded senses, we giggled at how the “Martian” was basically an actor shown from the neck up wearing a Carmen-Miranda-style headdress, only with tentacles rather than fruit,…

  • Ten books that shaped my raggedy soul

    When Jack Preston King tagged me to list my Ten Most Influential Books, I was startled to realize that I had never made such a list before — not here; not on Goodreads; not on Facebook when I was on Facebook. Once in a while, I had the snarky urge to make a list of the “50…