John Bogna
Freelance Journalist/Writer/Photographer. He/Him Currently: contributor @pcmag/@howtogeek/others My writing work, photos, retweets, and bad jokes. Enjoy.
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1 month ago |
medium.com | John Bogna
Member-only storyChapter 12: The EndJohn Bogna·FollowPublished inFictions·13 min read·--Credit: Adobe StockJuly fell to her knees on the glass path and burrowed her hands into her gnarled, brown hair, hyperventilating. She hadn’t wanted to remember. She’d shoved it down deep and covered it with shadow. But now something had torn the scab off and it was laid bare for her to see: it was her fault Max was dead. She remembered it all, now. Max gone in a blast of terrible white light.
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medium.com | John Bogna
Chapter 11: MaxJohn Bogna·FollowPublished inFictions·8 min read·--Photo by Stormseeker on UnsplashJuly walked toward the end. The ghosts of her friends walked with her. There was Egan, hulking and hotheaded but also gentle. There to help when it counted. She saw Martin, small and quiet and frail but fiercely intelligent. The first to go because he was the most sensitive —‘How do I know tha — ‘— Lucy, distant and cold and suicidal. Killed before they got the chance to get under her mask.
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2 months ago |
medium.com | John Bogna
Chapter 10: Closer to your front doorJohn Bogna·FollowPublished inFictions·5 min read·--Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashInterlude 4: [NO SUBJECT]The sand shifted and swirled. An entrance rose from the ground. When it opened wide enough for it to enter, the truck drove inside. Door and truck alike disappeared as the entrance lowered into the desert.
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2 months ago |
medium.com | John Bogna
The ‘Smile’ Films and Trauma as ContagionJohn Bogna·FollowPublished inCounter Arts·4 min read·--Credit: Paramount PicturesSpoilers ahead for ‘Smile’ and ‘Smile 2’. Good horror turns the innocent and everyday into nightmare fuel. A child’s voice. A doll. A smile from a stranger. That alchemy is where Parker Finn’s films excel. Smile was the first horror film to make me legitimately uneasy since The Ring. Smile 2, despite a weak trailer, followed up beautifully.
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medium.com | John Bogna
Chapter 9: “It’s just us, now.”John Bogna·FollowPublished inFictions·9 min read·--Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on UnsplashInterlude 3: ArrivalA cool, heavy night hovered over the vast expanse of shifting desert. Acres and acres of parched and featureless land carefully excluded from any map. The buildings beneath the shifting waves of silica did not exist. Never had existed and never would.
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There's real-life horror happening all around us; escape it with some imaginary horror! Chapter 8 of my dark #scifi novella The Helper is out now. #writing #fictionwriting #amwriting #readingcommunity https://t.co/vZ06iltiu8
A lot of this stuff IS cool, but how many will make it to stores? If the body-scanning mirror isn't another Theranos waiting to happen, could the average person afford it?
It's only been 1 day of CES 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible. The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2025 so far: 1. A 360° AI-powered body scanning health mirror that can scan your heart, weight, and metabolic health https://t.co/c8iaJFB5EW
Oh hell yeah, bruther, it's time for a new chapter of my #scifi #horror novella, The Helper. In chapter 7: what is The Maze? Why are the Slaps changing? And how does July seem to be able to feel them coming? #WritingCommunity https://t.co/k06HYgEcZH