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Is “Twilight” finally done?

After four books, five movies, and a raging battle between Team Edward and Team Jacob, the story of a boring girl with bad supernatural luck that turned into a media culture shock has finally reached its climax. Now what? With the hormonal wars that have been fought over the choice between a brooding, sparkly, undead [...]

I know better than anyone that writing inspiration isn’t one of those things that randomly falls out of the sky. When you set out on a forced journey to write the literary piece of the century, most of the time, you will end up traveling through a desert of barren creativity at some point or [...]

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What comes to mind when you think of the definition of an “eccentric person”? Back in the day, “eccentric” used to mean someone who performed feats of thrill-seeking debauchery, wore outlandish clothes, traveled in obscure ways to exotic locations, discussed groundbreaking ideas of insanity about their current obsession with every stranger they came in contact [...]

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Besides obsessively attending the haunted houses during this season, I personally like to indulge and experiment with and listen to scary stories about my local area. Let’s face it — when there’s nothing left to do on a weekend night, nothing turns it around like suddenly becoming terrified of the town you’re living in. These [...]

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Halloween is just around the corner, so I’m sure there must be a question in many practicing parties’ minds about just what they are going to disguise themselves as when Oct. 31 (or all the “awesome” parties on the weekend before) rolls around. Dressing up on Halloween actually began with an old Celtic ritual dating [...]

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Remember that game where you’d sit around with grade-school boredom and ask your peers, “Would you rather . . .” and what followed would be two options of unspeakably horrible and sometimes obscurely torturous situations. You had to pick which you’d rather endure, either for life or your untimely demise. You couldn’t refuse either choice [...]

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