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Notes from the desk—updates, reflections, and insights into the creative process.
This is where ideas take shape before they become stories.
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Alicia Anspaugh Enters Vocal Plus Stay Awhile Horror Contest with My Waters & A Hundred Lives
Author and artist Alicia Anspaugh explores slasher horror, creature horror, and sci-fi horror with her contest entries My Waters and A Hundred Lives for Vocal Plus’s Stay Awhile writing contest.
aliciaspaintbrush
May 231 min read
The Road to Hell | A Sci-Fi Horror Short Story About Good Intentions and Alien Invasion
A burned-out night-shift janitor tries to help a mysterious captive creature escape a secret underground lab, only to discover he has restarted an alien invasion delayed for sixty years. Read this dark sci-fi horror short story from Alicia’s Desk.
aliciaspaintbrush
May 131 min read
Submitted a new short story to Vocal’s “I Made It Worse” writing challenge.
This latest sci-fi horror piece, The Road to Hell, follows a tired night-shift janitor whose attempt to help a mysterious captive creature escape from a secret underground lab accidentally restarts an alien invasion that had been delayed for sixty years. This story was written for the challenge prompt: Write a confession about a situation where you tried to fix something and only made it worse. I had a lot of fun balancing dark humor, escalating consequences, and cosmic horro
aliciaspaintbrush
May 131 min read
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