User blog comment:AB1997/Where Did You Get the Inspiration forYour Pastas?/@comment-26475800-20150918033058

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To the Moon was inspired by taking my children to the MoSI. One of the exhibits was about colonizing the moon, which seemed really amazing to me and made me want to go to the moon. I than let my mind wander and came up with something horrific that could happen.

Spirit Bottles came from a novel titled Alhazared. There is a really heavy book that goes into depth about The Mad Arab from Lovecraftain fiction. It is a wonderful read and if you find it I would suggest shelling out the $30 for it. Anyway, that and also I wanted to do something about cults, the reasons behind that I will keep a secret for the time.

Withdrawals was an extreme of what I felt like when I was getting of drugs. Kind of didn't really need to explain that one I guess.

Voice Messages was inspired by a CD I listened to where a shrink was checking his voice mails throughout the entire CD. I thought that there was a great idea in there for a story. It was also inspired, and uses the story, Pickman's Model. Not sure if that one is on this site, but I think I have seen it around here once before