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Darrell Z. Grizzle

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in Marietta, GA, The United States
January 18

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Darrell Z. Grizzle is a writer of queer horror, dark fantasy, and crime fiction. He is the author of "I Never Meant to Start a Murder Cult." His story “Moonlight Sonata, with Scissors” was adapted into a short film by award-winning indie filmmaker Chris Ethridge. Darrell is featured in “Lonely Hollows: 15 Tales of Folk Horror,” “Effigies and Incantations,” “Yay! All Queer,” “Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell,” and Skelos 4: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy. Darrell is a former parole officer who now works as a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice. He lives in shadow-haunted Kennesaw, Georgia, with his partner Michael, their cat Althea, and way too many books. His home on the web is www.ShadowHaunted.com and his social media ...more

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Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
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Emma Goldman
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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