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December 11, 2020
MindFuck: A Poem by A.R. Braun
The universe was created?
Was God alone?
Exasperated?
Before the universe
There was nothing
My mind can’t take it
There had to have been something!
Our small brains
Can’t comprehend
The beginning
Any more than the end
God was alone
In an all-dark zone
Losing his mind
Before there was light
Now his piggies
We get fucked with
Raped and insane
Then done away with!
God’s a writer
And we’re protagonists
The book’s hell-on-earth
All around us: antagonists!
The epilogue’s Hell
After many spells
On our heads
From Satanists
A. R. Braun is the author of the novels, Dogman of Illinois, Heaven’s Witches, Autonomy, The Not and Only Women in Hell, as well as the short-story collections, Insanity, Horrorbook: Twenty-Two Tales of Terror, Grimoire, and the novella, 66SICK (purchase on amazon). He became interested in horror when he read “The Telltale Heart” as an assignment in high school. By the time he was eighteen, he had the whole Stephen King collection and started writing short stories for friends and family. His main goal was to put together a heavy-metal band, and he spent many years working blue-collar jobs and seeking out musicians, but never fell in with the right kind of guys.
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November 25, 2020
Book Lot Sale #334
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November 2, 2020
Top 5 Vampire Books I Want to Read
This Top 5 series started back in October 2018 and it has grown really big! This is a series of books that all have a common theme. I post the schedule for the next month the last week of the prior month. You can talk about books you want to read or books you have read and all prompts are open for interpretation! Feel free to get as creative as you want with the prompts.
Upcoming Schedule!
September 26th, 2020 — Guilty Pleasure Reads
October 3rd, 2020 — Intimidating Books
October 10th, 2020 — Feminist Themes
October 17th, 2020 — Animal on the Cover
October 24th, 2020 — Wishlist
October 31st, 2020 — Vampires
Rules!
Share your top 5 books of the current topic– these can be books that you want to read, have read and loved, have read and hated, you can do it any way you want.Tag…
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