The
Blood Lights
by
Elaine Pascale
Genre:
Horror
The
Blood Lights are the last thing you’ll see...
They
victimize all...
Jezzie
Mitchell is in anguish; with her brother’s murder still on her
mind, she’s noticed strange behavior among the girls in the
residential treatment center where she works. Is there a connection
between the contagion on Cape Cod and the deadly Bahamas vacation
that changed her life?
Jezzie
reaches out to former lover Lou Collins, a scholar who has chased
proof of the lights for decades. Will he be able to solve the mystery
of the lights in time?
Intensely
competitive, reporter Bridgette Collins knows the lights are a way to
secure fame in her career. And while it’ll put the final nail into
the coffin of her ex-husband’s career, she vows to know the secrets
of the lights. Even if it means unleashing a world-wide epidemic...
Elaine
Pascale has been writing for most of her life. She took a break from
fiction in order to give birth to two children and complete a
doctoral dissertation. She lives on Cape Cod, MA, with her husband,
son and daughter. She teaches a variety of courses at a private
university in Boston: from English Composition and Communications to
a Vampire Seminar. Her writing has been published in Allegory
Magazine, Dark Fire Magazine, and several anthologies. She is the
author of If Nothing Else, Eve, We've Enjoyed the Fruit, and is also
the author of the nonfiction book: Metamorphosis: Identity Outcomes
in International Student Adaptation--A Grounded Theory Study. She
enjoys a robust full moon, chocolate, and collecting cats.
GUEST POST
The makers of Doritos claim they never intended to make the “Lady
Dorito.” In the winter of 2018, a chief executive of PepsiCo let
slip that women have different snacking habits than men. Women,
according to the exec, don’t like to eat loudly in public. Nor do
they like messy crumbs and sticky residue on their fingers. They
would never, ever, ever tip a bag back and let the cheesy, salty
detritus fall into their mouths. And, most importantly, they like
compact snacks that can fit into a purse.
Basically, snacking should reflect
the daintiness that is womanhood.
Society has some strange ideas about
female hunger. Women should have small appetites regarding all types
of hunger: hunger for food, hunger for power, hunger for sex. The
Doritos discussion simply articulated what has always been implied:
women should reign in their basic impulses. Many women, mothers
especially, put their needs second to those of family, friends, and
even coworkers. Sleep, food, sex, and mental health can wait if
someone else needs your attention first. It is superego over id.
As a writer, I have always had an
interest in highlighting the primal urges in women. The Blood
Lights not only centers on food/cannibalism/female zombies, but
it also examines women’s desires for power, fame, and for love (in
the sense of having their needs met, as opposed to being the
caretaker of another human’s needs). And if women are focused on
their needs, how does that affect the family and society?
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