Today we’re having a speed-debate between Jeb and Morpheus over whose monster is the whole package—cunning, powerful, creepy. We’ve grouped their 4 monster choices into pairs per their intructions. Our players are seated across one another at a small table, and each get three sentences of back and forth to make their case. Morpheus won the coin toss (although we suspect magic was afoot) so he’s first.

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The Fideal VS The Creature from the Black Lagoon:

Morpheus: *drags wing over shoulder and rubs off a smudge* I’d just like to point out that these cannot possibly be in the same category considering Jebediah’s choice is a wax figure.

Jeb: It’s the only royalty-free pic I could find, bug guts, and you just used your first sentence for nothing.

Morpheus: *looks up from preening* As did you.

Jeb: *holds up two fingers* My creature can breathe in or out of water, lurks beneath the surface virtually invisible, then forces his victim under to drown them.

Morpheus: *drops wing and pulls on gloves* My fideal uses an alluring song and her dark sensuality to draw moony-eyed lesser-minded human clods, such as yourself, into the water of their own accord where she sucks the life from them.

Jeb: Black Lagoon dude is descended from amphibious dinosaurs and was resourceful enough to survive the ice age while still managing to have those full pouty lips any fideal would envy. *grins*

Bridge Troll VS Medusa:

Morpheus: My monster can turn people to stone by touching them.

Jeb: Mine just has to glance at them.

Morpheus: Yet mine can look in the mirror without turning himself to stone.

Jeb: But why would something that ugly want to look in the mirror? *coughs*

Morpheus: His dreadlocks are enchanted with telepathic powers that brainwash his victims into being so fearful of staying in place, they cross his bridge even when they know it’s their death on the other side.

Jeb: Medusa has venomous snakes on her head, so her bad hair day is fatal to anyone who gets within striking range.

Hobyah VS The Monster Under the Bed:

Morpheus: My monster lives in children’s closets—scratching walls and clanging hangers—existing only within their wild imagination but growing stronger and more real with each cumulative fear.

Jeb: *thumps table* Hmmm . . . same for mine, except he affects adults and children alike, lives beneath the bed, and goes bump in the night.

Morpheus and Jeb: *glaring at one another* Next!

IT (Intra Terrestrial) VS Extra Terrestrial

Morpheus: My creature comes from deep within the bowels of the earth, reflecting in its ancient, agonized eyes all of the wrongs your kind has wrought upon nature and her gifts—showing what you truly are . . . parasites.

Jeb: *scowls* Not every human takes our world for granted . . . ever hear of environmentalists?

Morpheus: If your kind had the ability to live in harmony with their natural resources to begin with, the earth would not be depleted and there would be no need for such groups.

Jeb: *clenches jaw* Back to the monster debate, mine has psychic abilities and makes mental and physical probing a sick art form.

Morpheus: Mine can also intrude on the mind, and has the ability to fill its victims with such dread and remorse, they no longer feel worthy of life and often take their own.

Jeb: Mine comes from outer space with the potential and technology to obliterate everything . . . world anhilation as opposed to one human being equals my monster kicks your monster’s ass.

*both guys stand, palms pressed to the table between them, staring one another down*

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Tomorrow, Jenara and Alyssa talk about their favorite Halloween movie and the impact it had on Alyssa’s prom clothes.

Hope to see you there for stop number nine!

---------ABOUT THE BOOK---------

Unhinged
by A. G. Howard
Release Date: January 7th, 2014
Pages: 400

   Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of.
   That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs.
   As prom and graduation creep closer, Alyssa juggles Morpheus’s unsettling presence in her real world with trying to tell Jeb the truth about a past he’s forgotten. Glimpses of Wonderland start to bleed through her art and into her world in very disturbing ways, and Morpheus warns that Queen Red won’t be far behind.
   If Alyssa stays in the human realm, she could endanger Jeb, her parents, and everyone she loves. But if she steps through the rabbit hole again, she'll face a deadly battle that could cost more than just her head.

A.G. Howard was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a child.
When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening, and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century graveyards or condemned schoolhouses to appease her overactive muse.

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