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Send us Fan Mail Join us as we read King's first publish novel, Carrie. We are reading the whole thing and witnesses the birth of what Kat calls "Kingisms". Let's all go to prom and enjoy some iconic female rage. We fully support trigger warnings and taking care of our own mental health so here are the trigger warnings for this book and thus this episode: Bully, blood, child ab...

Send us Fan Mail We're finishing The Dead Zone with this episode! Join us as we discuss power, the cycle of life, and finally finish one of King's favorites (supposedly according to internet sources). This book is loaded content warnings so please take care of yourselves: Rape, car accident, murder, animal cruelty, animal death, medical content, death, sexual violent, suicide, medical tr...

Send us Fan Mail A dead man once said something about power and responsibility. That man isn't in this story but we've all seen him die so many times you know the one. Regardless we're continuing to read The Dead Zone and getting a real view of the spectrum of what men with power do. We also go off the rails for a few minutes and discuss Baldur's Gate 3, its a great game and yo...

Send us Fan Mail Hey All! Sorry for the delayed announcement, if you haven't already seen on Bluesky we will be dark this week. Just needed a little mental health break but we'll be back with the second episode of the Dead Zone on May 28th. Support the show BlueSky: @ManyConstantWorlds Patreon: ManyConstantWorlds Twitch: manyconstantworlds Storygraph: @manyconstantworlds Email: manyconst...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're starting to discuss The Dead Zone. Now to be fair Johnny may not be a tragic hero but at least for the first 9 chapters it feels like we're heading down that path.  Join us as we discuss what my be our last detour before finishing the first Dark Tower book. Exciting! This book is also a doozy for the content warnings so please take care of yourselve...

Send us Fan Mail We're wrapping up 'Salem's Lot in this episode. We find out what plan the guys concoct and how well it goes for them. Did Barlow's irresponsible spread of the vampire plague destroy the ecosystem of The Lot? Will Ben ever keep his love alive? Will Matt ever be released from the hospital? These questions will be answered, are you prepared to hear the answers? Co...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of 'Salem's Lot brings up a lot of questions of sustainable blood sourcing and the harsh realities of too many vampires. But really we're just razzing this one as things are heating up and the Lot is suffering a plague. Content warnings: Child death, child abuse, death, blood, violence, animal death, death of a parent, murder, gore, domestic abuse, injury det...

Send us Fan Mail We are finally reading ‘Salem’s Lot! Keeping that vampire vibe going with one we’ve both been excited for. Highly praised being scary, will we finally find ourselves frightened? Content warnings: Child death, child abuse, death, blood, violence, animal death, death of a parent, murder, gore, domestic abuse, injury detail, physical abuse, body horror, grief, infidelity, rape, anima...

Send us Fan Mail That's right! Moving forced us to take a longer break than intended but we're back lobsters!!! We watched the 1992 film Sleepwalkers for this episode and discussing how it ties to The Dark Tower.  Content Warnings: Animal death, specifically cat death, animal abuse, sexual assault, body horror, child death, stalking, body mutilation, parental death, kidnapping, jump scar...

Send us Fan Mail We're back to finish off Doctor Sleep! We're taking everything and linking up with the King-verse in this one. We will also be taking our January hiatus after this episode. Additionally we are moving so while February was going start in on Salem's Lot there have been some changes to our upcoming schedule.  Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Child death, Addiction, Death,...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Holidays Lobsters! Join us as we discuss part 2 of Doctor Sleep. Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Child death, Addiction, Death, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Torture, Substance use, substance abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pedo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about community, we're diving into Doctor Sleep, the 2013 sequel to The Shining! You can hear Kat rage about an evil ticketing system while we catch up on Dan Torrance's life. Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Child death, Addiction, Death, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Torture, Substance use, substance abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gor...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are finishing The Shining! What happens with a family of three are snowed in to a haunted, or maybe its possessed, hotel? Little good.  Join as as we discuss the thrilling conclusion to King's third published novel. Content Warnings: Alcoholism, violence, child abuse, racial slurs, domestic abuse, murder, blood, addiction, physical abuse, death, gore, racism, emo...

Send us Fan Mail Taryn and Kat are back with part 4 of The Shining! Stuff around the hotel is starting to get intense and Jack is losing more of himself each day. Danny is trying to stay safe. And Wendy is just trying to hold the family together.  Content Warnings: Alcoholism, violence, child abuse, racial slurs, domestic abuse, murder, blood, addiction, physical abuse, death, gore, racism, emotio...

Send us Fan Mail We are wrapping up On Writing, part two was written with King’s post near death experience perspective. He also provides some more concrete examples of his editing process with sample writing and we discuss our own efforts to use King’s tools with our own writing. Content warnings for this episode: Car accident, injury, injury detail, medical content, substance use, substance depe...

Send us Fan Mail Meghan is back and joining Kat through the second half of On Writing. We are learning to really pay attention to the subtitle of “Memoir” of the craft. We expected more about the art of writing, but have learned so much about Stephen King as a person. Then again writing is meant to be personal right? Once again things ran long so tomorrow, October 31st, part deux will be out.  Con...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 5 of the Middle Green Mysteries, a Kids on Bikes playthrough. Kids on Bikes is a collaborative TTRPG written and created by Jon Gilmour & Doug Levandowski and distributed by Hunters Entertainment. Content Warnings: negligent parents, bullying, alcohol, substance use, the supernatural, witches, missing children, fire, isolation, the 80s Fire in the Sky is finally here a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 4 of the Middle Green Mysteries, a Kids on Bikes playthrough. Kids on Bikes is a collaborative TTRPG written and created by Jon Gilmour & Doug Levandowski and distributed by Hunters Entertainment. Content Warnings: negligent parents, bullying, alcohol, substance use, the supernatural, witches, missing children, the 80s Mom and Dad have returned home early from Miss Bet...

Send us Fan Mail Happy birthday to Stephen King! We are wishing you many more to come!  We also do get a little distracted in the middle but still the positive vibes are there! Support the show BlueSky: @ManyConstantWorlds Patreon: ManyConstantWorlds Twitch: manyconstantworlds Storygraph: @manyconstantworlds Email: manyconstantworlds@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail In Many Forwards Part 2 we're finally getting into the actual toolbox from Stephen King's On Writing. We're discussing the advice he gives and spoiler... a bit of a challenge is thrown down in this continuation of Episode 25. Content warnings for this episode: Car accident, injury, injury detail, medical content, substance use, substance dependence, cursing, death o...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kat is joined by Meghan, aka Sassy from Middle Green, to discuss the first half of Stephen King's On Writing. Stephen King gives us a rundown of his life framed around writing from his traumatic childhood through his late 90's adult self. The book surprised both with the amount of not writing in the beginning and this episode got a little long. Part 1 covers th...

Send us Fan Mail We are cracking open Jack and the Overlook to have a peek inside. The Torrances and the spirits of the hotel are starting to truly settle in for the winter. The first snow hasn't quite hit so the family is afforded a few more escapes down to Sidewinder for supplies, a medical check up, and a rather poorly thought out phone call. Content Warnings: Alcoholism, violence, child a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 3 of the Middle Green Mysteries, a Kids on Bikes playthrough. Kids on Bikes is a collaborative TTRPG written and created by Jon Gilmour & Doug Levandowski and distributed by Hunters Entertainment. Content Warnings: negligent parents, bullying, alcohol, substance use, the supernatural, witches, the dead, death, murder, suicide, missing children, the 80s *dun dun* In the...

Send us Fan Mail We are Shining bright in this episode! We have finally made it to the Overlook and so far loving it.  Taryn is keeping a growth mindset as we dive into the winding minds of the Torrance's, Kat is trying to divine the sense of 7s, and we're finally reading The Shining! Content Warnings: Alcoholism, violence, child abuse, racial slurs, domestic abuse, murder, blood, addict...

Send us Fan Mail We've finally read Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption! It gets us talking about Reno divorces, Kat is mathing 27s, and Taryn questions if anyone really exists. This story conjures memories of The Eyes of the Dragon for us, bringing back breaking strain and we're really examining the confinement of King characters to date. Also a reminder Friday, July 26th, is o...