Growing up, I was not afraid of wandering in the woods. We had an overgrown half-acre lot next to our house that was definitely a “forest” in little kid terms. Near my grandmother’s house, there was a park in the middle of what we called “the woods.” (They weren’t woods.…
By definition, an unreliable narrator in a book (or any kind of story really) is one whose integrity has been compromised. You can’t really give them the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes they have an ulterior motive, and sometimes their memory is just faulty. A couple of years ago, I…
For Corinne’s birthday last year, she asked for a Halloween cake theme. Her friends all said “Finally!” since her birthday is in October, and she has never had a Halloween or monster theme before. The closest she’s come has been Stranger Things a couple of years ago. So I set…
