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The Bite: When Fairies Attack

5/12/2025

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Jarad asks Julie about his favorite Things Get Weird in Whistlestop story, The Bite.  What happens when you make fairies mad? Things get weird. Also we learn that it's always best to go where the moon is happy.
If you haven't read the Whistlestop stories, this episode does have a few spoilers. We will have an audio recording of the story up by the end of the week if you'd like to listen to that first. Things Get Weird in Whistlestop is available through any of your favorite bookstores, an e-book is also available.

Listen here- https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17120040-the-bite-when-fairies-attack


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Went on a Field Trip to Tartarus and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

5/12/2025

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Julie and Jarad go back on the timeline to the point where people started to say, "Hey! Life isn't fair. Wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to make it fair after we die?"

Come for the scenery, Jarad's incessant whining, and the discussion about how every idea gets ruined by power hungry chaos goblins - even Hell. 
Listen here- https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315889/episodes/17037390-went-on-a-field-trip-to-tartarus-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt

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April 26th, 2025

4/26/2025

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Nosferatu, Appetite in an Ugly Fur Hat
Perdition City Station Podcast, Ep. 8. 

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Perdition City Station Podcast Launch

4/24/2025

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​Today is the day! After much thrashing and much suffering, the podcast Perdition City Station is off and running. Co-hosted by Julie Carpenter and Jarad Johnson, this podcast primarily explores hell, its history and impact on our culture, de-constructing Evangelicalism, with a few weird and uncanny ideas that keep the co-hosts up at night.
Jarad Johnson is a writer, editor, cat lover, and cryptid that currently haunts the Maine woods. A lifelong reader and deeply spiritual person, Jarad brings a perspective to the podcast that doesn’t operate within Christian framework. Mostly though, he’s there to annoy Julie and lead the conversation off topic and onto whatever tangents come to mind. 
Julie Carpenter is the Author of Things Get Weird in Whistlestop, and the upcoming novel The Last Train Out of Hell. She is a writer and narrative weaver who grew up in a very evangelical church in Tennessee. She has a fascination with Hell in all its aspects and just can’t get over talking about her breakup with her former religion. (Insert eye roll here). Sadly, she is the only one who can be trusted to keep this train on the tracks. I suggest you all hang on and buckle up. Wait a minute…there are no seat belts on this train. Never mind. Just enjoy the ride. If you can.
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Book Review: The Inescapable March, by Hana Carolina

3/31/2025

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The Inescapable March
by Hana Carolina

​Review by Julie Carpenter
​This beautifully crafted and intricate tale is a love story wrapped in a fairy tale wrapped in an Edgar Allan Poe story. It’s set in a fantasy realm but familiar elements are used in the creation of an admirably original narrative that’s at once complex and precise. 

It’s the story of two lovers, Arran and Hyacinth, men with a history of a friendship that hovers on the edge of something more. The narrative turns on the relationship between time and love with the eternal but terrible present as the moment when we can choose who we bond ourselves with and how.


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Review of Sunbathers, by Lindz McLeod

2/11/2025

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Sunbathers
by Lindz McLeod








Review by Julie Price Carpenter

I am  going to review some of the books I should have reviewed in 2024 particularly some of the ones that might help you parse this very weird timeline we seem to be unable to change. At the very top of the list is Lindz McLeod's
Sunbathers. The subject matter is difficult, charming and dangerous, hilarious and a gut punch, all at the same time. Classic McLeod. But believe me, this is a worthwhile addition to your reading list.

This book asks the questions: What if fascism is a desperate attempt to fit in, to dismiss anything and everything uncomfortable? And what is the cost of flattening diversity and individual experience out of existence?




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Two Poems by Sushant Thapa

1/16/2025

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​Such Winter
A Poem in the Dark

by Sushant Thapa





Such Winter 
 
The water is freezing, 
There is an outbreak of laziness. 
I have a youthful sensation rising. 
We had a battle
For love. 
You see the irony. 
I care for a plant 
And it flowers.
I care more 
And it withers like time. 
A smile is a dream 
For the life of tear. 
I met you 
And unexpected happiness 
Brought me the spring of kisses. 
I was on a battle 
For love—such ironical longings 
Has taken my youth away. 
I have forsaken
Rich man’s gold
And bought me 
How much land 
I need. 
The graveyard isn’t a home 
But it is the winter of heart
I am afraid of.
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Three Poems:  Ahmad Al-Khatat

12/18/2024

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by Ahmad Al-Khatat







Between The Pages 
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Between the library shelves, 
you are my fictional character. 
Between the covers and pages, 
you are my favorite author, my treasured poem. 
Between memories and study sessions, 
you are my unforgettable moment. 
12/17/2024
Bleeding Heart Poet Copyright

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Review of Present Tense Poetry, by John Yamrus

9/28/2024

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Present Tense Poetry
John Yamrus


Review by
Julie Carpenter


Present Tense has the eerie quality of making line drawings of life, as thick and evocative as a photorealistic painting, a present tense as close as breath, but as full of longing as a bad case of nostalgia. These poems are pointed, incisive, shorn of embellishment, pulling a thin line through choice to consummation. Possibility become finite. The retrospective of age.

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Spirit Animals

8/2/2024

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​Spirit Animals
by Gregg Norman






SPIRIT ANIMALS
 
Mine is a horse, she says, 
showing me an image
of an arch-necked Arabian
with flowing mane
and noble eyes.
And mine, he says,
Is an eagle.
He casts his eyes
to the skies as if
one might suddenly appear.
They know this because
of a $1,500 per head
three-day retreat
in the Arizona desert
with a genuine shaman
who didn’t sell
gophers or skunks.


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Bio: 
Gregg Norman lives and writes in Manitoba, Canada. His work has been accepted by Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, Raconteur Magazine, Medusa’s Kitchen, Suburban Witchcraft, and Borderless Journal.

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