While I agree that making the same price is silly, I suspect that your assertion that it is “much cheaper” to produce e-books is flawed. A tremendous amount of the publisher’s cost in book production is human: editing, proofing, design, layout, marketing, and so on. Printing and distribution, while certainly not free,…

That’s because the real cost of producing a book is in the researching, planning, writing, editing, revising,promoting, etc, not the printing.

People whose labor is unchanged regardless of whether the book is print or digital: the author, the illustrator, the editor, the designers, the copyeditors/factcheckers/proofreaders (*waves*), the people who manage all those departments and keep them on schedule and running smoothly (art director, managing editor,…

The mamma abandoned her not too long after birth. I live in Columbus. We’re pulling for baby bear.

I lost it at “look, it wasn’t my worst Wednesday night”. McKinnon is *amazing*

“I don’t think I was dealing with the top brass.”

This story only starts out like a horror story. It was horrible for me at the time. My boyfriend and I were celebrating our first Thanksgiving together. It was also just a couple years since my Mom died, a loss which had blasted a huge hole in our family. We scattered after that and had Thanksgivings either alone or…

Go to the Toast! That’s where all the cool kids at. Tell them your “puzzle/nuzzle” line, it’ll get you in I swear. They’re total nerds and will appreciate it. I’m trying to make that site the next Jez since they’re DRIVING AWAY/KICKING OUT all the good ones!!!! (No offense to those of you staying, I’m sure you’re…

Babycat is one of his nicknames — he prefers it to his “real” name, George. But he is also known as Joe, JoJo, Hey-there-Georgie-Cat, Foo, and Inspector Bossyboots, to name but a few. Many aliases for many moods.

I love all the haters in the comments. You do know this in entitled, “Scary Stories” ones based on taking the face value (honor system) of people telling personal stories. You don’t like it, submit a better one, or just don’t read them. This is for amusement and for people to get a little scared. They don’t scare you?…

A www yeaaaah! I loved don't wake up and the demons on the bus.

Sometimes you can feel that you’ve got to be calm. Shirley Jackson has a terrific short story about this kind of ghost called Home, in the collection Just An Ordinary Day.

k, real quick, in case you need one more before you go to sleep -

That is super scary and happens way more than most people realize; especially during the winter months.

Oh man. I’ve been waiting all year for this, because I finally have a truly scary story to contribute. It is 100% true, and I still nearly break down in tears thinking about it.

I moved for work, and took an apartment without seeing it, since I lived about 1,000 miles away. I am a scaredy cat. I am afraid of things that go bump in the night because I read a lot of Stephen King as a precocious youth. Anyway, I’m a little scared of moving into my first apartment that’s entirely my own. The…

Let me start with this: I believe that, somehow, there is a logical explanation for what happened to me. This event, however, has puzzled me for years. I was 17 years old when my girlfriend and I snuck up to my dad’s lake house one winter (late February, so it was cold), which was about 45 minutes away from the…

When i was in high school, i lived in Charleston SC, way out on Johns Island in the country. I was a sweet weirdo kind of arts kid who enjoyed such hits as being alone, Sylvia Plath, the Doors, the beach at night, dressing up like old Hollywood, and thrift store shopping. There’s all kinds of great thrift stores in…

I came across these stories last year and I found them hard to get through, I guess I’m a wuss, but last January something really weird happened to me and I’ve wanted to share it ever since.

Rest in Peace, Doctor