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Tag: Virginia Carraway Stark

Jenn Spaulding Shares a Valentine Horror Story or Two

Posted on January 26, 2016 By admin No Comments on Jenn Spaulding Shares a Valentine Horror Story or Two

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Our next author in the spotlight is Jenn Spaulding. Her visceral fiction is a big hit in the GAF Mainframe Universe. This time she has written a horror romance set in the present day for StarkLight Press’ Valentine’s Day Anthology, Hearts Asunder. Here is a little bit of backstory on Ms. Spaulding:

Jennifer Spaulding is an author, mother, scientist, and scholar. She has penned four books of poetry, numerous short stories, and she is currently writing articles for Outermost: A Journal of the Paranormal. She is also currently busy with several top-secret collaborations. Look for her poetry on Amazon under J.L. Estes. Her poem “Shattered” was selected to be in the 2012 International Who’s Who in Poetry. Jennifer was also a participant of the 2014 Poetry Marathon. Her poems are featured in In My Mind’s Eye along with many other internationally diverse poets.

Jenn also took a few minutes to answer our interview questions:

Interview Questions

  1. Do you have a real life horror story of love gone wrong in your life?

When I was sixteen I met 21 year old Steve Jocko. He literally gave me no choice in the matter. He grabbed me and declared me his. He began kicking the shit out of me on a daily basis. Until one day he went too far and almost killed me by rupturing my spleen. I lost 4 liters of blood.

By the time I made it to the hospital the next day, I was on my last leg. I was so scared that he would kill me that I lied to the cops and said I got jumped. I spent two weeks in the ICU. He was beating the shit out of me again the next day. One night he grabbed a long, serrated bread knife and tried to slice my throat but I threw up my hand and he sliced my pinky damn near off.

Finally my mom came to get me after seeing my body covered in bite marks. My mother spent the day getting drunk and decided to go curse Steve out. I was 6 months pregnant and I begged and pleaded with her not to go, but she didn’t listen. She was so trashed I wouldn’t ride with her so her boyfriend’s nephew was sober so I rode with him. She went to my apartment where Steve was waiting outside with an ax-handle. Steve seen me in the van with another guy and his eyes filled with murderous rage. I told the guy to drive, but Steve was there smashing the passenger side window where I sat, so I dove in the back of the van and told him to go. Steve Jocko cowardly beat my mother with that ax-handle. The surgeons said it was like a jigsaw putting the pieces of her skull back together. She lost her eye. He barely got any time in jail.

  1. What do you find makes the combination of the love and horror such a potent combination?

I think that love and horror make such a potent combination because both fear and love are very intense emotions.

  1. What was the source of your inspiration for your Valentine’s Day horror story?

I got the idea for Killer Love from a dream that I had about an elusive female serial killer.

Jenn’s gripping tale can be found in Hearts Asunder, our Valentine’s Day anthology from StarkLight Press. It will be available Feb. 1, 2016!

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A Mixture of Love and Horror

Posted on January 24, 2016 By admin No Comments on A Mixture of Love and Horror

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This year, StarkLight Press has teamed up with some of our best, hand-picked authors to bring you a spine-tingling Valentine’s Day anthology. Hearts Asunder is a set of short stories that turn the classic romantic tropes of Valentine’s Day on their heads.

Part good old fashioned horror story, part dark romance, every tale in our latest anthology is guaranteed to make you look at this romantic holiday in a new light.

To kick off our release of this great title, StarkLight Press is featuring interviews with each of our authors. Check back here to catch the latest ‘heart-to-heart’ with our Valentine’s Day writers.

 

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Thoughts in an MRI

Posted on January 16, 2016 By virginiaseastark 4 Comments on Thoughts in an MRI

Thoughts in an MRI By Virginia Carraway Stark “I read what you wrote,” She said. Her flame of red hair was ringed in platinum, making her look like an angel as she pulled broccoli out of a shopping bag to make a salad. I scanned my mind, such a loaded statement, I couldn’t think about…

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On Bravery

Posted on January 10, 2016 By virginiaseastark 3 Comments on On Bravery

I am someone who is extraordinarily brave. I have learned this mostly from having it repeated to me by so many people, most of whom have only heard a fraction of what I’ve experienced. I don’t feel like I’m a brave person. I feel like I’m just a person.

Child Abuse, Children of alcoholics, Courage, Sexual Abuse

To Everyone Who Knew Me as a Child

Posted on January 3, 2016 By virginiaseastark 1 Comment on To Everyone Who Knew Me as a Child

Dear Everyone, I have to wonder why nobody ever asked me if I was okay. I wonder about a lot of things from that time but it especially bothers me with my aunts and uncles and cousins. Why did you think it was normal that I always had broken bones? Why did you think it…

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How My Dad Broke my Silence.

Posted on December 17, 2015 By virginiaseastark No Comments on How My Dad Broke my Silence.

When I was run over this summer and spent the night in the hospital my husband was a long ways away and couldn’t be there with me. I called my Dad who got my message and got into his car and headed in the opposite direction because it was too upsetting for him that I…

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Child Abuse, Children of alcoholics

For the First Time

Posted on December 17, 2015 By virginiaseastark No Comments on For the First Time

By Virginia Carraway Stark Over the past couple of days I’ve had my life unravel. After I ran away from home when I was a teenager it was many years before I came back into contact with any of my family. The first thing that happened when I saw my Dad and Stepmother were tearful…

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Child Abuse, Children of alcoholics

In My Mind’s Eye Arrives

Posted on December 14, 2015 By admin 2 Comments on In My Mind’s Eye Arrives

Here is Virginia Carraway Stark, talented author and poet, with our first poetry Anthology, “In My Mind’s Eye”, featuring poets from around the world.

This first foray into the world of poetry comes from Virginia’s online poetry group, Writing Challenge Fun, where poets and free-thinkers come together to share ideas, images and creativity together.

You can get your copy of the anthology at www.starklightpress.com/starklight-press-bookstore alone with the rest of our fine titles in ebook and print form.

Congratulations, Virginia, and thanks for all your positivity and support of this anthology!

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We Learn from History, Not Silence!

Posted on December 10, 2015 By virginiaseastark No Comments on We Learn from History, Not Silence!

We Learn from History, Not Silence! By Virginia Carraway Stark. How Silence Dooms the Generations. Tragedies can bring people together or tear them apart and it’s all down to the willingness of those who have been affected to share and talk and learn and love each other. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support…

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Child Abuse

Wolfspiders and Vodka

Posted on December 9, 2015 By virginiaseastark 4 Comments on Wolfspiders and Vodka

One night things became very dark. None of the lights seemed to be working and Judy was sitting in my bed. She had collected quite a few very large wolf spiders and was letting them crawl on her arms. They were the size of my hand. I was horrified. This was NOT a hallucination and my fear of spiders came flooding back all at once.

Child Abuse, Children of alcoholics

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