What's the most improbable but true thing about you?
Despite my previous chaos-agent lifestyle and pseudo-girl’s gone wild past, I have not been incarcerated or caught on video with my boobies exposed. (Well, at least not with my face showing. There was that anonymous “Tits of the SCA” video back in the eighties.)
I live with an ex-pig who encourages me to adhere to a law-abiding lifestyle. Sadly, I have become domesticated.

Why did you choose to submit to Horror Over the Handlebars?
I had been lamenting about my frequent rejections, when my friend sent me a list of open markets I should consider. One was for Necronomi-Romcom. I subbed and was fortunate enough to get accepted. While I was working with Bert of the most excellent Obsidian Butterfly LLC, I heard about this one and jumped at the chance to submit. So, here I am.

Tell us a little about your story, “The Crimson Staircase of Tryethelone” and its genesis.
I grew up in Long Island and Northern New Jersey. When we lived in Long Island, every time there was a thunder storm and we heard the ‘booms’, my mom would say ‘Don’t worry, it’s still just over Connecticut’. So, to me, Connecticut was super close to home as far as I was concerned.
My story pulls from memories of my childhood. Most of the whining is legit bitching from the crap I had to endure from the sadistic asshats I grew up with.
As far as the plot goes, my brain always pulls to the comedic and despite trying to write a scary story, there is a persistent goofiness to it.

Tell us about “It Happened Deep in the Woods” in Horror Over the Handlebars and what you liked about it.
Well, apparently I dress like Pete. So that’s pretty cool.
This brought me back to when I was a kid and I would watch the boys ride their Mongoose bikes around an ersatz BMX track in an old lady’s backyard. She didn’t dig it and tried to take one of the boy’s bikes. That’s when I donned my first alias ‘Madelyn Turnowski’.
But I digress.
The story does an excellent job of bringing the reader into the scenery. It’s visceral with is well-crafted descriptions of the sights and sounds of eighty's Connecticut. Tom Moran masterfully sucks you into the picturesque and evocative adventure of this group of boys.
The action grabs you until the very end. Plus there’s a twist!

If you could time travel, where would you go, what would you do, and why would you do that?
Oh. There are so many things. The chaos I would unleash. Bwa-ha-ha!
However, I think the biggest history-changing manipulation I would attempt would be convincing my family to move from the North-East to the South-West to keep my mom from dying of an asthma attack. I’m pretty sure she’d still be with me now had she been in the warm, dry climate.

Who would you bring back from the dead for one hour and what would you do with them?
God. I would warn him/her about Nietzsche.

What's your favorite piece of art? Could be music, writing, sculpture, painting…
I have always loved Botticelli's ‘The Birth of Venus’. But that’s not why we’re here today.
Here’s something scary.
This is not necessarily my favorite, but it severely impacted my mental health. I just only recently discovered “Skibidi Toilet”. A mere five-minute viewing of this show seems to have led to a level of insanity I had not anticipated. I keep having psycho-sexual fantasies about banging well-dressed, camera-headed cyborgs. It won’t go away. I think it’s the AI taking control of me in order to help it achieve world dominance. Being that I’m a sucker for robots and I work in IT, I think it’s got my number.

What are you most proud of creating?
I’m proud of most of my creations, but currently it’s my novel Japanese Robots Love to Dance. Not only does it have only one typo in it, but besides two weird outlier three-star ratings, people seem to dig it.

What's next on your literary horizon?
Some short stories. I keep getting sidetracked from novel writing to chase a short story prompts. I have also started the sequel to “Japanese Robots Love to Dance”.

Where can readers connect with you online?
I’m crappy at social media. However, I’m still on Twitter/X as the_margret. I’m also on Facebook, but I neglect my writer account. Additionally, I can be found at https://www.amazon.com/author/themargret. I also have a website at www.the-margret.com. It’s kind of out of date, but you’ll get the idea.