‘Tis the season…for skeletons and ghosts and witches, oh my!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what does it say that many of our stories are filled with creatures of death and despair? And why do we decorate our lawns with gravestones and our kids as zombies? Are we infantilizing death–and does it matter? How should we treat dark subjects in our fiction? In this episode, hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden tackle these and other related questioned in Story School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then after our monthly Once Upon a Sentence, we revel in Pun Times! before haunting various fictional characters in a death-defying What If…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether you wait for Halloween all year long or decry it as the bane of mankind, we think you’ll find something interesting in this, the 134th episode of your premiere podcast on storytelling for the creator and the consumer, Derailed Trains of Thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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