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Karma Fights a Monsters

Karma Fights a Monsters

A boy in Bhutan can't stop getting attacked by monsters. Even his school librarian is one!

2019

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Aug 31, 2025

Evan’s Short Stories

Hi, everyone! I’ve been writing on Medium for a couple years now, and I wanted to organize my work so that it’s easier to find. Here’s what…

Evan’s Short Stories

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Jul 23, 2024

All of Evan’s Articles

Non-fiction only

A collage of photos of the author.

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Oct 21

Unexpected Terror: ‘Friday the 13th: A New Beginning’

A movie doesn’t have to be scary to scare you

Close up of Jason in a hockey mask

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Fanfare

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Jun 21

Spielberg Celebration: ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’

This is Spielberg unfiltered, good and bad

Scatman Crothers grins at us in the front yard of an old folks’ home while an elderly man kicks a can in the background

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Counter Arts

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Jun 3

‘Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear’: A Newbery Book That Time Forgot

Why this children’s book dipped into obscurity

The cover and an inside illustration from Christine Weston’s ‘Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear’

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Microcosm

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Feb 5

Grandma’s House

I just wanna help

An old Victorian house

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21st Century Flicks

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Jan 24

David Cronenberg’s ‘Freaky Friday’

A review of the 1987 Disney remake

David Cronenberg’s ‘Freaky Friday’

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The Kraken Lore

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Jan 22

The Trick to Surviving the Apocalypse

I kinda lucked out…

Tiny red demons crawl out of a steaming crack in the ground.

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Fictions

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Jan 22

The Short Career of Bernie Samba

You know his face but not his name

The Short Career of Bernie Samba

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Redemption

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Jan 22

Mike’s Head

A horror short story

An obese man sits forlornly in an empty bus

Evan Purcell

Evan Purcell

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Evan Purcell is a writer and English teacher who has worked all over the world (most recently in Kazakhstan). He's working on his first feature film.

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