Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations.
Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.
If you need to save money on groceries, you can’t beat those in-store deals. They had similar deals for chicken and pork.
I know that I’m Shanty Irish, and that my foodie friends are typically aghast at the choices I make but …a little ketchup on salmon really does the trick.
I finally got around to seeing 2000’s “Shadow of the Vampire,” after it has been recommended to me so often by people I trust. I had fun with it.
It’s a what-if story that asks what might have occurred during the filming of the classic “Nosferatu” (1922), if actor Max Schreck really had been a vampire (and if director F. W. Murnau was fully aware of the fact).
It’s fun stuff with a stellar cast, and it might make a cool double-feature with the original silent film. 🙂
I am truly honored to see my poem “The Beach House, Early Spring” appear in the Singapore-based Eunoia Review. You can find it right here.
The Eunoia Review is truly a first-rate international literary magazine; its commitment to sharing examples of “beautiful thinking” attracts the very best of creative work. I’m grateful to Founder and Editor Ian Chung for allowing me to see my work featured there.
They’re not traditional vampires, zombies or ghouls; they don’t feed off of their victims … at least not physically. They’re not ghosts. (They’re corporeal and require sleep.)
Would they be shape-shifters? If so, they’ve got only two modes: 1) pale people and 2) fangtastic.
I read an interesting hypothesis on Reddit — that the word “from” actually means “fairy” in antiquated Welsh or Gaelic or something (kind of like the arcane “fae.”) But I’ve since lost track of that post.
Your guess is as good as mine. But they’re the scariest thing on television since the Night King’s wight army on “Game of Thrones.” (“True Blood’s” various creatures grow milquetoast the longer I watch the series. And “The Walking Dead’s” new uber-zombies still sometimes feel like disposable Daryl-fodder.)
There is only one clue that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned by others — they all seem to be wearing period clothing. (Am I nuts or do they all look like they’re wearing 50’s-era clothes?)
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