A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep … heard this line before? Welcome to Night Vale is an audio drama podcast written by Joseph Fink and Jeffory Cranor about a strange desert town where the unusual and horrifying…
My co-written screenplay with James Raven, The Sentinels of Tzurac, has been awarded a semi-finalist status and marked as an official selection at the annual Edinburg Screenwriting Competition.
There are some stories that we can see playing in our heads; we can see the cinematic sequence of every fight, of every kiss, betrayal, victory, and defeat. And as we play these movies through our heads, what do we hear? You can visualize the actions and scenes playing in time as your eyes scan…
Horror is one of the most primal genres to exist. It touches the primitive parts of our minds that still fear what we cannot see in the dark and how it will hurt us. However, a lot of modern day horror focuses less on building to those moments in favor of the instant-gratification emotions of…
Millions of people have stared into the night sky and asked, are we alone? Arthur C. Clarke has said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” But if we are not alone, what will we find? There are thousands of science fiction and science…
Don’t tell the television executives and mainstream media this, but not everyone wants sex. Imagine! And here we were thinking that the “A” in LGBTQIAP+ meant, “ally.” There are projected to be over a million asexual people across the world, yet the saturation they have in media can almost be counted on two hands. But…
Join me as editor of the anthology and contributors E.S. Magill, Jean Graham, Aaron Smith, Richard W. Goldsmith, and Billy San Juan at this festive pre-Halloween Launch Party to celebrate the publication of California Screamin’. Come early for champagne, cake, and other holiday goodies. Anthology contributors will discuss the anthology and read spell-binding snippets of…
California Screamin’ California. Close your eyes and say it: California. Images of perpetual sunshine, swaying palm trees, and blue waters lapping at sandy beaches. That one word conjures visions of gold and fame, luring dreamers to its mythic shores. The original peoples lived in an abundant paradise. The Spanish found a familiarity to their homeland.…
Stephen King’s novel, Carrie, is an epistolary novel whose form has the tendency to confuse and disorient the reader. While King’s book was quite popular and successful enough to warrant several film adaptations, it is a bit of a shallow representation of the female psyche, represented by the slew of bitchy teenage high school girls…
Forgotten (As Script Supervisor) In development by Bagboy Productions and Street Artist Pictures Set in a therapist’s office, a tormented man reluctantly opens up about his abandonment issues deriving from his Greek biological father, reflecting on his addictions, anger and near death experience. Based on true events. Winner: Best Experimental Short Best Experimental Short…
