We talk about The Stand, Stephen King’s doorstopper novel about a plague, good, and evil. Content warnings for this episode: Pandemics, illness, disease, death, kidnapping, emotional and physical abuse, fatphobia, bullying, sexism, misogyny, rape, substance abuse and drug addiction, torture and mutilation, suicide, racism, ableism, bodily waste functions, animal abandonment and endangerment Follow Ranged Touch… Continue reading The Stand

The Stand

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We talk about the 2001 novel Dreamcatcher. Content warnings for this episode include: body horror focused on parasitism and infection, bowel functions and injuries, ableism, fatphobia, misogyny, terminal illness and death, imprisonment and execution, drug use, alcoholism and addictions, violence against animals, suicide, racism, auto accidents and serious bodily injury, decapitation. Follow Ranged Touch on… Continue reading Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

We talk about the 2000 memoir / writing guide On Writing. Content warnings for this episode include: description of serious automobile accidents and physical injuries, surgical procedures, and ear trauma; animal death, addiction and overdose, racism. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from… Continue reading On Writing

On Writing

We talk about the 1999 novellaish novel Hearts in Atlantis. Content warnings for this episode include: automobile accidents, bullying, child abuse, ableism, racism, misogyny, rape and assault, graphic descriptions of serious injuries to the limbs and head, war crimes, child death. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King… Continue reading Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis

We talk about the 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Content warnings for this episode include: child endangerment and injury, animal death, alcoholism, addiction. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come hang out in our Discord channel.… Continue reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

We talk about the televisual novel Storm of the Century. Content warnings for this episode include: homophobia and discussion of a hate crime, murder. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Geneva “Gensuta”… Continue reading Storm of the Century

The Stand

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