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Past Lives . Top Story - October 2024.
I watched this movie on the plane from Rome to New York almost a year ago. I started writing this story by getting the image, putting in the title and the first sentence. However, I never got around to actually writing it up until this week when in my Intercultural Communication course I used the movie clip as an illustration of non-verbal communication in different cultures. The memories and feelings of the movie flooded and urged me to return to this review. So I will try to point out some of the ways the movie affected me at the four distinct levels from the media literacy perspective:
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Geeks
The Birchfield Building Cellar. Top Story - October 2024.
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. No matter how loud the knocking became, mother said to never give in to my curiosity. That part of the estate was restricted and mother warned that my existence on earth depended on keeping a great distance away from the Birchfield Building cellar.
By Colton McClintock2 years ago in Horror
The GoldFinch. Top Story - October 2024.
A/N: The following story was created for the second round of NYC Midnight’s 500-Word Short Fiction Challenge. The prompts were A Fairy Tale/Fantasy, Forgiving, and A Pet Bird. The top 4 from each group moved on to the finals. I received 5th place and an honorable mention, just missing the cut-off.
By Kenny Penn2 years ago in Fiction
A Decade of Decline. Runner-Up in Fantasy Prologue II Challenge. Top Story - October 2024.
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. Raindrops leapt from puddles and took to the sky. In the hills, snowflakes drifted upward to rejoin the clouds, and avalanches climbed to the mountain peaks. On the coast, the sea un-lapped the sand, crested backward, and waved goodbye.
By Tyler Clark2 years ago in Fiction
My Conversations with Eva Péron. Top Story - October 2024.
I laid the LP on the turntable and dropped the needle. The familiar scratch of the vinyl disc hit my ears before the mastery of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first bars filled the air. The hairs on my arms stood on end as the death of María Eva Duarte de Perón was announced in a cinema in Buenos Aires. Operatic voices rang out with Requiem for Evita, their intensity rising as the seconds ticked by.
By Vanessa Brown2 years ago in Wander
Lupine Feast. Top Story - October 2024.
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. The sign was posted above the frame. Huge letters -crimson, black. Smeared, grainy; indelible. My erstwhile host had disappeared. Like a phantasm he had appeared in the forest just as I thought I would surely die in this god forsaken wilderness.
By Andrew C McDonald2 years ago in Horror
The Final Nail. Top Story - October 2024.
There was only one rule: Don’t open the door. I repeated that warning in my mind, as I wandered through the moldy tunnels of the dark wine cellar. Stagnant water slowly dripped from moss-shrouded ceilings, pooling in the cracks between the slick stone walkways. The only sounds were the echoes of my footsteps and the never-ending plop, plop, plop of dripping water.
By Tina D'Angelo2 years ago in Horror
