TexanMorrell

"I understand you're a [woman] who knows how to get things." - Andy Dufresne (sort of) Opening with a paraphrase quote from Shawshank means someone should ask Morgan Freeman if ...

Okay, looking for work to review. Let's see here... "Shadowdale." Hmmmm, probably some teen fiction about vampires, or fantasy nonsense... huh, what's this? A desperate escape from Dark Shadow People?

"JUST MY IMAGINATION / RUNNIN' AWAY..." Straight from their "Sky's the Limit Album," The Temptations knew what they were talking about; sometimes the right woman comes along and causes our ...

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE / DOWNTWON ABBY: CHILD BORN There is such a thing as genre pandering, and it is not inherently evil; there are specific markets that sell specific stories ...

A PRISMATIC PRESENTATION OF PINK SHOES Labeled as a short story, this poetic snap shot of a little girl, or maybe several little girl's, (or maybe just the one girl ...

I'M CLAPPING, BUT THE FAIRIES AREN'T COMING BACK Fantasy is one of my favorite genre's, especially in the vein of 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'The Ocean at the End of the ...

HANGING DAGGER, FALLING ZIPPER "There is no fate, but what we make," but the reality of that situation tends to be moot if you're an average teenager under the rule ...

CLASSIC EXAMPLE: LOOK, THEN LEAP I do not review poetry. No, that's not true. I do not review poetry very well. Yeah, that sounds better. Never the less, this poem ...

A 'CLEAR EYES' COMMERCIAL... IN THE FUTURE! So you know you're doing a good job as a writer when your reader's mouth begins to water, their brow begins to sweat, ...

UNDER PRESSURE I'm combing all through the Studio Gibli catalog, but I can't find what anime film this is from. The imagery here is both very familiar, and at the ...

LIFE CYCLE There are a hand full of talks that most parents really don't look forward to delivering to their kids, and death is near the top of that list. ...

B-MOVIE HORROR CLASSIC After moving out to California, I stayed at my aunt's place for a few months. The guest room was stuffed floor to ceiling with those American Girl ...

Too Young to die, too Short a Life This is simply heart breaking. It also seems very familiar considering how many young deaths I've witnessed, so heart strings aside, I ...

Fairy Tale No. One... Not Revolution No. 9 Despite being my passion, it has been a long while since I held to the core principal of writing, and that principal ...