Taking a little break from the format already, Zach invites Gannon Reedy to talk guilty pleasure songs. There wasn't much of an assignment this week but I encouraged you to make your own guilty pleasure song playlist and share it on Spotify. I want to see em!

This week me and Matt Wrobel of chicagocritic.com both wrote a flash fiction story with the prompt "Driving North." We both had our hiccups and insecurities writing our stories, but ultimately we find that we liked what we came up with. We talk about the process of writing and editing a story and how it helps to be drinking a beverage while writing

Nils Robbins drops by the podcast to discuss the new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe, Terror in Resonance, and to talk about the film he worked on about survivors of tragedies, Beyond Right and Wrong

Happy Halloween! In this episode, Zach sits down with Alex Mougin to talk about the 1992 movie written directly for screen by Steven King, Sleepwalkers! We talk cats, horror icons and tropes, and what to actually call the monsters in the film.