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This sounds like a good and fun way to promote myself, so why not? Here are my inspirations!

Broken Mirrors-- this pasta was inspired by real life serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who's sexuality ultimately led him to kill. Dahmer was probably one of the most evil men ever to live. He was well known for murdering men he picked up at gay bars, masterbating on their corpses (as well as having sex with them), dismembering them, performing his own twisted surgeries and taking pictures of the insides of the human body (some of his poloariods have become quite famous for their gruesomeness), and lastly, disentegrating dead bodies in tubs of acid...

Crucifix-- I was inspired by this story from a real life experience that I actually had. When I was no less than five years old, my father got a job opportunity in Peru, and me and my family moved there for a year. When we got there, we quickly discovered that religion was a huge deal. There were representations of Jesus Christ on the cross literally everywhere (and I don't mean small ones either, I'm talking life sized, massive ones). As a child, fueled by my curiosity of the macabre, I always used to go up and inspect them closely, taking in the gore and nastiness. I would later have terrible nightmares featuring evil Jesus's that reached out towards me with bloodstained hands, moaning with the pain and effort that walking was taking them, and me, not being able to move at all as the evil Jesus got closer... and closer.

From Deep Within-- For this peice, I drew inspiration from a campfire story that I heard when I was a child. I remember that it basically scared me sleepless, and I ended up pulling an all nighter at that particular sleepover. The story went something along the lines of... ''There was a family in the 1950's with a little girl. One day, the girl came down for breakfast and announced that a man had visited her in her room. The the family scoffs and brushes it off, but one day, the girl doesn't come down to breakfast. When they go up to her room, they find the window open with signs of a struggle... even though all the doors in the house were locked.'' When Ruckus's Mystery Contest rolled around, I just put in some mystery elements, made the story much longer, gave it character development, and added in several new concepts and ideas.

Outside Lights-- I got the idea for this one from my appreciation for urban legends in general. To be completely honest, it is really a sort of mosh pit of several different urban legends all mixed into one specific peice (the most clear and obvious of which is the "Killer in the backseat/Headlights" Urban Legend.)

Revival-- I dreamed up the idea for this one quite a while ago, actually. I was in the middle of holding a writing contest. In this competition, I was to have a list of good possible titles for creepypastas, and when a user typed "I'm in" in the comments, they were given a title to use from my particular list at random. Whoever could create the best pasta with the given title won the contest. One of my personal favorites from this list was the name A Figure in the Fog (Just in case anyone is curious, ShadowSwimmer was assigned this title, and he actually won first place in my contest, and that pasta has been nominated and is currently winning PotM.) I tried to imagine what it would be like if I myself was writing a pasta with the title "A Figure in the Fog," and "Revival" was the ultimate result.

Something Is Wrong-- This was the first pasta I ever wrote that I was very proud of, and it has gotten some pretty good feedback (Yes!) I got the idea for it when I was visiting my old cousins and I noticed that they had moved their couch in front of the cupboard in the stairway. I specifically remember wondering That seems awfully inconvenient, I wonder why they moved that couch there? One thought led to another, and from it, this story was birthed.

Tongueless-- This pasta is about a teenager who is struggling with guilt, and it was mostly inspired by the magnificient writer known only as Mark Twain, and more precisely, the story of Tom Sawyer. For those of you who have not read "Tom Sawyer," first of all, read it now, its obviously a masterpeice, second of all, it is about a young troublemaker of a boy who gets a serious reality check after he witnesses a murder and makes a pact with his best friend not to tell anyone about it. I gave this a bit of a modern twist, as well as hopefully upgrading by going from a muderer to a full blown pyschopathic serial killer.

I know that this is quite the long comment, and I am sorry, but I simply cannot help it! I love talking about my work, as well as writing in general! Good day sir!