Adam-Troy Castro

Writer of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Stories About Yams.

 

Great Stories Are Not For Escaping. They’re for Re-Connecting.

Posted on May 9th, 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro

Originally published on Facebook (in slightly different form) 9 May 2015. You know, there’s a great – devastating, but great – story from the early days of the AIDS epidemic, culminating when the nurse-narrator hugs a patient in the last stages of the disease. He bursts into tears. “Oh, thank you, thank you,” he weeps. […]

Some of My Unpopular Opinions

Posted on December 14th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Some Of My Unpopular Opinions: * The death of Scarlett O’Hara’s daughter is the campiest scene in GONE WITH THE WIND, unintentionally hilarious as dramatized. * And aside from a few effective set-pieces, the movie as a whole isn’t much better. * Bob Dylan *is* great, but some of his more esoteric images that get […]

I Get More Out of Entertainment than Whiny-Ass Male Bitches Do

Posted on July 18th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]

 
 
 

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