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P.T. Phronk

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P.T. Phronk writes about things that don't exist, things that might exist, and things that shouldn't exist. That’s a clever way of saying he writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

He received a PhD in psychology after writing a dissertation about what makes horror films frightening. So he literally wrote the book on horror, and continues to create horrific things by cover of night, while by day, he writes about science and technology, helping people out of modern digital nightmares.

P.T. Phronk sometimes just goes by "Phronk." He lives in London, Ontario. I'd say he's a solid 3.5 star author.

He also wrote Baboon Fart Story, an experiment in publishing. Here is some nice stuff that famous people sarcastically said about Baboon Fart Stor
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Are You Seeing This?

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Give Me Back My God Damn Arm

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2023 in Review

Yes, this is an AI image, only because it's fitting for 2023. Sorry, artists it stole from.

Pretty normal year this year, which is weird. For better or worse, everyone seems to have moved on from the pandemic, even though we all sense that something has changed forever, and that we probably shouldn’t be ignoring the next foreseeable disaster coming around the bend.

Personally, I’ve continued to be very lucky, and I am grateful for that. Work was a big focus, as I moved into a director rol

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Ernest Hemingway
“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”
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“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
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“I want to know what love is. I want you to show me,” said Tyson, grateful that this planet was allowing a foreigner to share this experience with it.”
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