Category: Real-life horror
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Conjuring my Postpartum Anxiety
I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been avoiding this. When I started this blog, I wanted to recount my experience with PPA through a horror lens, but man, I have been writing about almost everything but PPA. Turns out, that shit was traumatic. Thinking about it is not how I want to spend my precious…
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An Unexpected Guest on Our Afternoon Walk
Readers, I kid you not. My kid saw something spooky in broad daylight. Well, waning daylight. Now a quick disclaimer for credibility’s sake: While my kiddos know about my interest in the horror and the supernatural, it is a topic that only comes up occasionally in my house. When my kids ask, I answer their…
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Giving Birth to Postpartum Anxiety
Sometimes something follows you home. Let me first say something to all of the pregnant, anxious, near-term moms out there who found this post while doom-scrolling. I am alive and my babies are alive. So it’s not really a horror story. More like one of those slow-burn Shirley Jackson stories I wrote about in my…
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Real-life Horror: Pregnancy and Childbirth
Can we be honest about pregnancy and childbirth? It’s horrifying. In my first post, I promised (or threatened) to explore the horror of postpartum depression in the pages of this blog. But I think we need to start with square one: the horrifying miracle of birth. In my day job, I teach fiction to undergraduates…
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The Nonfiction that Scared my Kid to Tears and a Recommendation
There is nothing scarier than not being able to protect your children in what should be the safest place: your home. Think about it. This is where the truly good supernatural horror movies really get to us. We are terrorized in our own beds, and the things that go bump in the night can get…
Scaring the Kids 