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My First Day In The Dungeon

Today marks my first day in the office with Chris, and he has thrown me into the deep end or shall I say the dungeon. I am writing my first blog on this site, and already I can feel the shadows whispering. Hello every…

Fae Crane·4 September 2025·1 min

The rekindling of a (Twisted) love affair by James Burns

I blame Bette Davis. As an idiotic 10-year-old, I was allowed to stay up late to watch her terrifyingly demented performance in The Nanny and couldn’t sleep all night, convinced that she was hiding in the cupboard, re…

James Burns · 24 November 2024 · 4 min

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Horrifying Tag Lines, Log Lines, and Other Descriptions by Kate Bemis

So, you have one sentence to get across everything that matters. What do you say? …I have no idea. Seriously. No idea. I hate tag lines. You’re going to tell me that, of the 88,000 words I’ve just written (each one as…

Kate Bemis · 10 October 2024 · 2 min

What is a horror? We had no idea, now we do. Kind of…

My name is Kate DeLong and I’m a fantasy writer stuffed with candy floss and rainbow unicorns. And I’m Sara Gustavsson Stark, another fantasy writer who thinks the world would be better if everyone ate more cookies. W…

Kate DeLong · 26 September 2024 · 2 min

A great break from writing with writing… Even for a 400 year old vampire!

If you are reading this post on Twisted50, you are most likely a writer, whether an aspiring writer or a 400-year-old vampire writer with 300 years of experience; it doesn’t really matter – we all love the same thing…

Thalia Lagou · 17 September 2024 · 1 min

Twisted50 Updates… Twisted50

Over the weekend we had a flurry of activity resulting in us approaching 100 stories submitted and nearly 1,000 feedback comments on the submitted works. AMAZING! Have you submitted but didn’t add a short bio? If that…

Chris Jones · 27 August 2024 · 1 min