Month: October 2024

  • Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolves:  CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE and Personality Development

    Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolves:  CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE and Personality Development

    By Park Cooper and Barb Lien-Cooper

    This post contains SPOILERS for the wonderful spooky films THE CAT PEOPLE and CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE! So you should very probably consider going and watching them first if you haven’t already!

    Okay, here we go:

    When adults don’t care enough to save a child, what option does the child have but to save herself?

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  • “Learning Curve”

    “Learning Curve”

    by Barb Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper

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    The spaceship landed in an empty field.

    A car happened by… and slowed down… and stopped by the side of the road.

    “Oh mi’God,” said the young woman in the car on the passenger side, “it’s a real UFO.”

    “We should call the police,” said the young man driving.

    “They won’t believe us without pictures– I’m getting out of the car,” said the young woman.

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  • Catching Up With Barb and Park, 10-3-24

    Catching Up With Barb and Park, 10-3-24

    Well, it’s October now– things have been a bit delayed with our first contest, as you already know presuming you read our last newsletter. In case you missed it, the publisher of our story Hungry Ghosts celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a giveaway contest, giving away art and copies of Hungry Ghosts the graphic novel– and some copies of the ebook of the HG prose novel, too, as well as a digital story from Barb’s comic Gun Street Girl.

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