From Around Here

Last night I managed to get to 92 pages on the Script Frenzy screenplay challenge. It means that I have completed the challenge in eight days, which means it should be completed tomorrow. Aside from that I spent most of the evening reading stories in the Best New Horror book that I bought a few weeks ago. One of the stories ("From Around Here" by Tim Pratt) is about a displaced island god who searches for a new home in the USA while fighting evil supernatural creatures. Another one ("Pumpkin Night" by Gary McMahon) told of a man who brings his serial killer girlfriend back to life by replacing her head with a cursed jack o'lantern. The third story I read ("The Other Village" by Simon Strantzas) told of two Canadian women falling out while on holiday in the Mediterranean and one of the two finds a solution to her anoying friend in a strange deserted village. They were all pretty fun stories. "From Around Here" was fun and pretty exciting, "Pumpkin Night" was gruesome and genuinely creepy and "The Other Village" was a pretty fun Twilight Zone style one.

This morning I went out to get a birthday present and card for my brother (his birthday is on Thursday). I got a card and a £10 HMV voucher. Since he lives in London and I very rarely see him, I never know what he wants or what he's already got. At least with a voucher he can pretty much get what he wants with it. On the way back I stopped off to get my week's groceries. I also got the latest issue of Empire magazine. It was a twentieth anniversary issue this month with Steven Spielberg acting as guest editor.