The present-day narrator regards his former self less with dewy-eyed indulgence than with red-faced horror: "a pretentious writer hiding his beginner's fragility... a walking nightmare".
AT Milton Academy, a boarding school near Boston where he was a scholarship student, David Lindsay-Abaire got heavily involved in one of those super-geeky extracurricular activities that one is apt to look back on later with a mix of pride and red-faced horror.
Yet I had passed the bar exams of three contiguous states and had spent my adult life in the general practice of law, and so there was, simultaneously, a professional sense of belonging to such buildings as this old red stone horror with its corner cupolas, which dominated the square at the city's center.
She was a very nice publicist, and yet... (Memo to WES CRAVEN: Pitch for red carpet horror flick with the working title "A Nightmare on 43rd Street": A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN, FRÉDÉRIQUE KRUEGER, citing a desperate need for HEALTH INSURANCE, takes a job as a gossip columnist on a New York daily.
The event kicks off with a "Barrel O' Fun" pre-party, where face painters will be "around for 'touch ups,'" some clown-centric prizes will get raffled off, and a photo booth will capture all the red-nosed horror, according to the Alamo Draft House website.
There are ships burning in the distance, a red glow of horror beyond the horizon: evidently, the same terrible scenes are taking place everywhere in the world.
More lightheartedly – but still full of pumpkin-headed, black-mouthed ghosts, and the red-eyed, unseen horror Bo Cleevil – Jodi Lynn Anderson's May Bird and the Ever After is an assured and satisfying read, a hybrid of Stephen King's Bag of Bones and Beetlejuice for younger readers.
"Who Wore It Better?" You decide in this special showcasing celebs caught on the red carpet in — horrors!
Personally, I'm grateful for the grounding influence of men in stylish dark suits – can you imagine the horror of red trousers on the red carpet?
"Unquantifiable amounts of blood have been spilled on this earth; thus, humanity is mummified in red and jumps in horror here and there.
