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Like pretty much every story I\u2019ve ever written, the idea for HUSKS was Frankensteined together from a few different sources of inspiration.<\/p>\n

The original version of the short story was written for an anthology where every tale had to take place in a specific small town. Other than that, the only other prerequisite? Every character\u00a0suffered from \u2013 or perhaps was blessed by \u2013\u00a0insomnia<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0insanity<\/strong>\u00a0sometimes born from it.<\/p>\n

In keeping with my love of small towns, I wanted to explore what could possibly go on behind-the-scenes of such a place. What\u00a0secrets<\/strong>\u00a0would the powers-that-be hold? Why would so many writers flock to this one town? And\u00a0what would happen to them<\/strong>\u00a0once they arrived?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Ideas were already swirling, but it was a seemingly innocent tweet from a friend that gave me the final seed for what would become Husks\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, my family will find my dried husk perched over the keyboard\u2026 Keep forgetting human\u2019s need watering.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Couple that with a show I watched on Animal Planet and research about the stages a butterfly goes through from caterpillar through metamorphosis \u2014 and the\u00a0secrets<\/strong>\u00a0of what goes on behind closed doors at a publishing house in the fictional town finally came together for me\u2026during another bout of insomia\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What started as a tale about shady happenings behind closed doors quickly turned into one that gave one of my readers “the shivers”.

The story was inspired by an innocent-enough post on social media…\u201cOne day, my family will find my dried husk perched over the keyboard\u2026 Keep forgetting human\u2019s need watering.\u201d

Want to know more? Read this behind-the-scenes look<\/a> at Husks.

Are you brave enough to read Husks<\/I><\/B>? Pick up a copy of Group Hex Vol. 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inklings"],"yoast_head":"\nInklings: About Husks - MaryRajotte.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/inklings-about-husks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inklings: About Husks - MaryRajotte.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What started as a tale about shady happenings behind closed doors quickly turned into one that gave one of my readers "the shivers".The story was inspired by an innocent-enough post on social media...\u201cOne day, my family will find my dried husk perched over the keyboard\u2026 Keep forgetting human\u2019s need watering.\u201dWant to know more? 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