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John Bankston

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It’s no one’s fault that I love the dark.

At six-years old, I enlisted my father’s help in constructing a model skull. Two years later, I talked my mother into buying a life-sized skeleton poster at a novelty shop. I tacked it up during the day. After the sun set, moonlight scattered through my blinds made its bleached bones shimmer and dance.

I was an only child growing up in a remote Vermont cabin. My imagination spun tales of horror, stories that grew in intensity after my babysitter read selections from her dog-eared copy of John Saul’s Suffer the Children. I don’t blame her for my love of the dark either, I was already ten after all and by then a hardcore aficionado of all things that go bump in the night.

By sixth grade I was reading my
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My Pandemic Reading and Dystopia’s Diversions

My Pandemic Reading and Dystopia’s Diversions

We all have escapes. During sad times, some choose to giggle at comedies. Others find stress relief re-watching teen dramas. Horror is my sanctuary. I read it as a tween growing up in an isolated Vermont cabin. I devoured it during the worst of my early adulthood. And last year as the world slipped into a weird sort of purgatory, I found unexpected hope Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 02, 2021 18:35 Tags: collins, divergent, dystopia, fifth-wave, hunger-games, pandemic, roth, yancy
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