The Tuddy Bear: a horror story I wrote at 20 for a college English class, about a man who sells his soul to the devil to save his dying wife and gets reincarnated as a stuffed teddy bear with a pull string. His mission: find the devil’s missing son somewhere in Hell-Knows-Where, Texas. His secret weapon: a mouth full of razor teeth where his stomach should be.

Chris and I read all 18 pages, including every single time I wrote the name “Gus.” Plus: the possessed bath toy I threw out of my house, the demon door in my office, and the professor who told me fiction was a waste of time.

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1:00 The floating eyeball

2:00 Reincarnation, the afterlife and the Tuddy Bear

4:00 Raised Catholic

6:00 The story begins

8:00 Terrifying cartoons from our childhood

12:00 The devil’s mission

16:00 Mephistopheles

21:00 Adolescent malformed samurai tortoises

24:00 The possessed bath toy

26:00 The demon door

28:00 Believer vs. skeptic

30:00 Why haunted places feel haunted

32:00 “If Gus had a pair of lungs to sigh with”

36:00 The school bus

40:00 The boy with hair down to his feet

47:00 Barbie’s Dreamhouse

51:00 Gus’s wife

56:00 The mouth in his stomach

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1:06:00 The deal with the devil

1:12:00 The girl with the green aura

1:16:00 The shapeshifter

1:21:00 The twist

1:26:00 Final verdict

1:29:00 The teacher who said fiction was a waste of time

1:30:00 Coming soon: the novel

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