The Morality of Horror

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Happy Monday, Everyone! Yet another post from a recent writing conference I went to. This class was taught by Michael Brent Collins, author and screenwriter extraordinaire! I found it to be very insightful, even if I probably should have gotten this post up before Halloween. :/

Recently my brother and sister and I were having a conversation and my brother said something that made me smile, but really had a lot of truth in it. You see, my brother is nineteen and he's at a point in his life where he's really struggling to find himself. My sister made some comment about not flirting with the darkness. To which my brother hesitated, then replied, "But I kind of like to flirt with the darkness." 

That statement probably should have alarmed me, but instead it made me smile. I just saw a lot of myself in him, a lot of how my family is (I come from a very long line of rebellious) and a lot of humanity as a whole. Don't we all like to flirt with the darkness to some extent?

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