Episode of the Month

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Your themed episodes for the month of May are "Tornado Days" and "Reality Takes a Holiday"

Beltane/May Day Challenge

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Get jumping over your bonfires and decorate your maypoles, gang, because today is Beltane! Let us know how the farming community of Eerie protect their crops and cattle, and ensure a successful summer season.

Musical Mondays

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It's Monday, the start of the working week. To counter-act the post-weekend blues, cheer yourself up with Radio Weird: Songs of Eerie. Whether you're checking out some of eviinsanemonkey's amazing filks, or taking up deifire's awesome recommendations for Eerie-centric listening, or creating a musical fanwork of your very own, share your thoughts, and your favourites, in the comments!

( Stabbity Steve: a Murder Ballad by Eviinsanemonkey )

( After Wolf Mountain: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Pay Attention: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Krampus: an Eerie Christmas Poem by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Moo! A World o' Stuff advertising jingle by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Bigfoot Stole My Mail: a Musical by Owen Neil )

( Eerie, Indiana fanvids by Roseveare )

( Weird Science (Don't Leave My Arms): an Eerie, Indiana Melanie/Devon/Marshall fanvid by Current Joys )

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Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: For Charity

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( Read the rest of the Trusted Associates verse here )

Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Alternate Version

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( Read the rest of the Microwave verse here )

FangirlNation reviews Ellen Klages’ ‘Wicked Wonders’

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Ellen Klages’ Wicked Wonders is one of those short story collections that is deeply poetic and carries you like a song through the night when you’re supposed to be sound asleep. This collection of short stories features everything from a girl destined to be on one of the first missions into space where return is not an option, a story of a young woman who can create magic through maps and rescue those who cannot help themselves halfway across the world, and even the secret imagined history behind margarine.

My favorite story features a young woman seeing Disney’s Sleeping Beauty for the first time and falling desperately in love with the character of Maleficent. Rather than being delighted by all the dolls of the princess or prince, she finds herself wanting a puppet of the witch and begins to find that it carries her through challenging times.

As I’ve stated before, Klages’ work has a poetic quality to it that appears almost lyrical. Passages become much more fun to read aloud than quietly to one’s self. The best part is each story is relatively short so it’s hard to fall back in to the age old excuse of not having enough time to read. Wicked Wonders is a collection that the reader finds themselves not wanting to put down, but also not wanting to finish out of fear that they will have to leave the magical world they’ve found behind when the close the cover.

Wicked Wonders is available from Tachyon Press May 23, 2017.

New round of Fandom Pimping open at SmallFandomFest

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Head over to smallfandomfest on Livejournal or Dreamwidth and sign up to pimp your tiny fandom to the world!