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[spacebabie]

Well my bath was ruined last night. After I finished scrubbing myself with the bath gloves an reached for the pumice stone I saw a cockroach on the corner of the tub. Not just any cockroach, but a Texas/Florida sized one.

I tried to shoo it to the floor so that Spooky (She likes to be in the bathroom with me when I bathe for some reason) would do what all cats do when they see a cockroach. Instead it dove into the water.

Boom! I'm out of the tub and I pulled the plug. I know that didn't kill the bugger, but that was a gut reaction on my part.

Entered the Mascot naming contest for the Gathering. First time I entered in a pre Gathering, Gathering contest.

gots me an idea for the Anthology. I will write it out once I'm finishied with this fic I'm working on, and do the final edits on another fic and post it.

When did I get so grim and gory in my writing? I recently wrote a scene that had a man's stomach explode. I didn't always write like that.

I blame my father. He loves those gory horror movies, the more bloody and disgusting the better. He even bought Beyond Reanimator....although he may have jsut boughtthe movie for the music video.

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[sabledrake.livejournal.com]

Now I'm all worried ... on the one hand, you're saying you got a story idea for the anthology ... on the other, you're talking bugs in the bathtub, explody stomachs, and other horrific gory-writing stuff.

Personally, being a horror writer too, I'm all in favor of that. It just worries me in this particular context some ... :D I'd hate like the very dickens to have to edit out perfectly good but too-gruesome-and-scary bits!

-- C.

[spacebabie.livejournal.com]

the horror gory one is for my Dragon Quest mini series.

The anthology idea will be pretty tame compared to it.

[sabledrake.livejournal.com]

Drat! Um, I mean, good ... good ... yeah. Tame. Good. :D

-- C.

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

One wonders if she'll do like Stephen King did in that one graphic novel (I forget the name) but it had this thing with killer roaches. It was great! Roaches coming out of the guys mouth! XD

[spacebabie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Creepshow.

[sabledrake.livejournal.com]

Oh, as for the cats? Mine do that, too. I think that in their little feline brains, an alarm is going off in the same part that leads them to do heroic things like you hear about on the news -- Cat Calls 911 When Owner Has Seizure, or Cat Wakes Family Of Twelve And Saves Them From House Fire. Except in their little feline brains, the alarm is going off because if they could talk, they'd say, "Omigod, don't you realize you're IMMERSED IN WATER?!?!"

-- C.

[kimberly-t.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's what at least some of them are thinking! A buddy of mine at the Cat-Tales message board once told a story about her "rescue kitties" and the first time they saw her taking a bath. They were obviously bothered by her sitting down in and mostly covered by water, but other than shifting about a bit and making little concerned sounds, they just sat there and watched. But when she ducked under the water completely to rinse out her long hair, they instantly went into action; one of them ran out of the room making distress yowls to summon her husband, while the other bravely jumped to the edge of the tub and reached down with one clawed paw to hook into her hair, and tried mightily to pull her back up! (Needless to say, Ouch! But she tried to be appreciative of their concern.)

[spacebabie.livejournal.com]

My cats are oddballs. Spooky meows when I get ready for a bath or a shower because she wants to be with me and hile I bathe she just curls up on the rug.

The few times Velvet was in there she stared at me, looked like she almost wants to join me and then sniffs the water.

[rashomonchb.livejournal.com]

Beyond Reanimator isn't that disgusting. Actually it is much better then the chapter before it which just got real weird.

[spacebabie.livejournal.com]

We have biseceted guy, a decapitation, a penis bitten off, and guy's torso exploding.

and the one before it was even grosser?

I think I'll just stick with original movie...better yet, I'll just read the Lovecraft story.

[rashomonchb.livejournal.com]

And the reanimated penis kung fu fought a rat at the end of the movie in the credits! That is the mark of a quality b-movie!

Bad movies are so much fun to watch and occasionally heckle. You just need to get friends together, mix some drinks and laugh at em. There is a great one from Full Moon Video called The Creeps about midget monster archtypes that have to resort to tripping people with rope because they are just so short to be effective ANY other way.

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! A roach, poor you! >< Sorry to hear that.

[warpmind.livejournal.com]

So in short, you're writing creepy stuff, and your bathroom is bugged...