Had a weird dream where Candy Mare was meticulously making these caramel fudge cookies, just drizzling layer after layer of caramel and fudge and for some reason it was low key the most sinister thing in the world. Like, it went beyond merely foreboding and was outright harrowing. There were these solid black things crowded around her just giggling away as she made these baleful no-bake cookies.

Nothing else was going on, but it was just absolutely menacing.

The official end of Spooky Time and the start of Xmas Time in the U.S. (Yes, there have been 'holiday' decorations up since before Halloween, shhhh.)

As everyone gathers together to slather gravy on burnt bird meat, I can't help but giggle manically about things that are yet to come.

Things like, what the next Something Sweet to Bite might be! It's silly, I know, but there is a part of just about every day where my mind wanders over to the krazy kandy killer and I just can't help myself.

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I have no idea how widespread this is, but apparently some kids are daring each other to stand in front of a mirror and say 'Candy Mare' five times in the dark.

Apparently if you do she shows up and eats you.

First off, if you aren't in your teens you probably shouldn't know what the Candy Mare is.

But this is too fricken adorable!

I love it. I wonder if they are basing this off Bloody Mary or the movie Candyman? (two things nine year olds should not know about.)

I dreamt I wrote a poem about the creation of the Candy Mare. Like, not the actual process that lead me to think of the character, but some bizarre live action performance art where I was gathering up the different pieces of her body from a run down haunted house and slowly putting her together. Apparently the police wanted to arrest me for crimes against humanity, and stop me before I finished the poem to keep her from being unleashed on the world.

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It has been a long time since I've updated this blog. Man.

But hey! It's the first day of the month of Halloween! (Or at least hat'd what it feels like anymore every time I go to the store. Not that I'm complaining.) And You should all know what that means by now! Yup, I've been working hard(ly?) over the summer and I've got a brand new grimdark story for all of you! It's the often requested, long awaited, and (hopefull) grand finale to Something Sweet to Bite!

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As will be little surprise to those that regular read my blog, I am a huge horror fan. I am absolutely fascinated by horror and major horror characters. As such, from time to time I'll read about popular horror movie characters and those who have portrayed them in movies. Today I randomly came across an interesting tidbit from Kane Hodder, of Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th series, who had said that the hockey masked murderer he famously portrayed had his limits. There's a bit in Jason

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Getting to the real meat of the story now. Finally get to the full origin of the Candy Mare. It's rather better than I remember. Doesn't hurt that Emogak's really nailed the delivery for the Candy Mare herself. Fun times all around!

Part 2! Beware the plottening! A bit of a warning on this, there are worse things than death, and this part of the story deals with a few of them.

Hello everyone , it's once again time for my weekly blog post. I admit that I was hoping to have more for you guys today than a simple blog post, but things have gotten a little bogged down with my current project. Though the saying goes, you can't rush quality, I'm hoping to have something for you all soon. Something Sweet to Bite.

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So the last couple of blog posts I made could be construed as mildly negative. I don;t really care if that bothers you, but I figured it would be a nice change of pace if I talked about things that I actually feel positively towards. We're coming up on Halloween pretty soon, and that is by far one of my favorite holidays. We're also coming into Autumn, which is my favorite season, so I have a lot to be positive about. It did occur to me recently though that there are some things that I love

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I first came up with the concept for the story of "Something Sweet To Bite" around March. I had finished writing my second big arc series, Broken, and I was looking to write another one shot story. While my arcs tend to focus on adventure with some horror elements, I like most of my one shots to be dark, if not outright grimdark. It had occurred to me though that I hadn't written a grimdark story that was really all that violent since one of my first pony stories, a sequel to Cupcakes. I love

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