Protecting Whales

Here’s an interesting article about Denver-based author Peter Heller and his work with a community of people who strive to save whales from slaughter.

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Under the Top Hat

As regular Slushpile.net readers know, I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to music, particularly the kind that heavily features guitars. So I devour music biographies the minute they hit the shelves. I recently enjoyed Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star and Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography.…

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Thirteen Scary Questions

Halloween is my Christmas  So last night I paid twenty bucks then stood in line for better than two hours to finally get to stumble and cringe and scream my way through a haunted house. And I’ve got to say, I would have waited four hours. Six. Just because that thrill of being scared, that…

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Happy Halloween!

I’m afraid (no pun intended) that my horror knowledge is woefully lacking. Aside from the trauma that Disney’s The Headless Horseman inflicted upon me as a small boy growing up on a horse farm, I don’t know that much about frights and the things that go bump in the night. So I turned to Stephen…

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Interview: Richard Lange, Author

It’s been a while for me. Fiction hasn’t been moving me much lately. And even my love of short stories had let me down. Nothing was exciting me. Until I read Richard Lange’s Dead Boys: Stories. This wonderous literary collection has enough tint of noir to be thrilling and the author’s voice is undeniable. Full of…

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