the words and worlds of John Robinson
Spring has sprung here in Tennessee. The grass is greener, flowers are blooming, the sun is brighter when it's not raining and the birds are chirpier outside my window in the mornings when I really don't want to drag myself out of bed and go to work. Ooh, those gosh-dang birds. Like most things in …
High school senior Nath Storm is hired by local farmer Pete Morgan to do chores. Pete has a prosthetic leg and his family thinks it wouldn't be such a bad thing to have an extra hand with the harder work. Pete knows this is true, but pride will not let him admit to very much. …
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, someone is dressing as a clown to scare the locals. This person doesn't really do anything besides hold black balloons and stand in one spot. Security cameras capture him and passing motorists snap photos. Taking social media and regional news outlets by storm, the sinister looking clown is nicknamed Gags and …
Back in the mid-nineties, I was on a trip to Florida with my family. We stayed in a motel at the midpoint before driving on the next day. Before we left the motel that morning, everyone met in my aunt and uncle's room. My cousin was putting the finishing touches of her make-up on in …
In the Bronx, small businesses are being bought for big bucks in the name of gentrification. The company doing all the buying is an international real estate conglomerate called Murnau and, for them, money is no object. Where there were once salons and grocers, there are now boarded up windows, plastered with Murnau flyers. The …
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A car crash took two things from Nolan Wright: his memory and his wife. With his memory damaged, he cannot remember the past and simple things everyone else in the world take for granted elude him. The damage done to him now threatens to have his young daughter, Ava, taken from him when he forgets …
At some point in pre-history, a meteorite crashes to Earth. It lands on an island off the coast of what is now Africa and soon Nature reclaims the impact site, and the big rock with it. Time marches on, civilizations rise and fall, wars are fought, lines are drawn, maps are changed, and, as is …
During World War II, U.S. Marine Willard Russell finds a fellow soldier crucified by the Japanese. Slowly dying from torture and with no hope of survival, Willard shoots the crucified soldier to put him out of his misery. This sets in motion nearly everything that follows in The Devil All the Time, which offers a series …
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American Howard Hallenbeck is visiting Ireland to research a book he is writing about Christian churches and their pagan roots and influences. For this trip he has brought along his wife and two small children for a little family vacation. Of course his son and his daughter argue and they get on their mom's nerves, …
Betty Schaefer : I'd always heard you had some talent. Joe Gillis : That was last year. This year I'm trying to earn a living. Joe Gillis is a screenwriter in 1950s Hollywood and he's not having a very good go of it. He tries to hit up a producer at Paramount for work, but it flatlines. That's …
Curio Macabre 