Cathartic Unaliving Series
Fictional scenes of murder and mayhem based on reader requests
In winter, 2022 I made the mistake of sharing with my TikTok audience that writers have fun killing off people we don’t like in stories. If I need someone to die in a piece of fiction, I have been known to use the names and/or characteristics of people who annoy me. I invited my TikTok audience to share the names of people they would like to see fictionally killed off and promised to write short scenes of death. And they delivered! Turns out that it’s cathartic to fantasize about killing off people we don’t like! Because TikTok censors videos with words like “murder” or “killing,” this became the Cathartic Unaliving Series. And I bring it to you here in all its phantastical glory.