Great article, would love to see more like this.

2) It’s good that you took a chance to bring in a real monster into this segment. As disturbing as it is. I’m on my speech and debate team at my high school, and I do an event called Thematic Interpretation, basically taking selected cuttings of books, songs, plays, poems, stories, whatever, and weaving them together into a 10 minute piece to convey a theme

…My theme is monsters, called “Not Just Make Believe”. The intro into mine goes like this: “When we are children, monsters hide in the closet, under the bed, in the dark shadowy corners of our room. But as we get older, the monsters grow with us. The line between fantasy and fact begins to wave, then fade, as we realize monsters aren’t just make believe, but perhaps more terrifyingly, created by us in our image.” Then I go into my pieces, which include a children’s book about a boy who hears a voice saying I’m going to eat you, and he looks everywhere, finding a bogeyman, a sea serpant, a werewolf and a ghost, not fazed by them, until finding his little sister – the monster eating the cookie. I also have the actual confession of Aileen Wuornos (it’s creepy.), a cutting from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a cutting from Frankenstein, with the song The Boogie Monster by Gnarls Barkley woven in.

Anyway, the point of that was basically to say that it is frightening how the scariest monsters are the ones that look just like you and me.

Keep on truckin’ with this segment.