Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

 

Scott M. Sandridge

Depending on who you ask, I’m either a Right Wing gun nut or a Left Wing loon. Both of which are inaccurate. I actually prefer grenades instead of guns, and I’m quite moderate in my lunacy. But despite the odd quirks—or because of them?—I’m a writer. From fiction to nonfiction, humor to horror, and everywhere in between, I write it. I just can’t write mainstream; it’s too hard.

I’m also the Managing Editor of Fear and Trembling.

 

List some of your works (stories, books, poems, songs, albums, movies, etc):

The most recent have been

My podcast, A Work in Progress

The Messiahs War, Book I: The Silverblade Prophecy podcast novel

Transhuman” in Chimeraworld #6: New World Disorder

“A Nighttime Business Arrangement” in Silver Blade which will soon be reprinted in the anthology, Dreams and Screams

“ASSP on Europa” in Digital Dragon Magazine

“The Philosopher in the Dark” in The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008

“Shadows” and “Sleep Paralysis” in Every Day Fiction

“Demons Without, Demon Within” in Mindflights

I’ve also written a couple humor articles for Writing-world.com, and over 60+ reviews for Tangent Online and The Fix

 

Your website: http://smsand.wordpress.com

 

How can you be contacted? scottmsandridge@gmail.com

 

In your own words, define Withersin.

Sadistic, but in a good way.

 

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

I’d be a quadriplegic hobbit with tentacled genitalia and buzzsaw teeth. I’d also have a hand cannon sticking out of my navel and an auto grenade launcher attached to my shoulder.

Oh wait, a sideshow act…

Hmmm, a clown perhaps?

 

What is your greatest non-literary influence?

Megadeth. They rock. And everything they sing about is true, which is pretty scary when you think about it.

 

Describe your most irrational fear.

Fear of the dark.

 

How about your most guilty pleasure?

Anime.

 

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

Ring Around The Roses. Especially when you know what the rhyme originated from.

 

Do you eat meat?

Yeah. I just don’t have enough willpower to become a vegetarian. Besides, some of us have to help keep the population down….

 

What were the skies like when you were young?

Blue and clear of chemtrails.

 

Name your favorite garden tool.

Whichever one can make the bloodiest cuts.

 

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

Least favorite color: brown, for obvious reasons.

First job: packing Windows at a warehouse (sorry, guys and gals, for helping to foist the biggest virus Bill Gates ever made until Windows Vista on y’all).

Worst job: It used to be retail, but then I discovered fast food.

 

Favorite:  Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.

Author: It’s a toss-up among J. R. R. Tolkien, Stephen King, and Edgar Allen Poe

Movie: Ultraviolet. Watching a horde of Nazis getting slaughtered in a Moral Sciences library gives me warm fuzzy feelings.

Music Group: Other than Megadeth? Ummm, I love Lacuna Coil. They rock, and Cristina Scabbia’s hot.

Song: Currently “United Abominations” by Megadeth, “Uprising” by Muse, and “Global Resistance” by DJ Chris Geo.

Quote: “Let it not be said that we did nothing.”—Ron Paul

 

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

French, with garlic. Yummy.

 

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Dropping bombs on Pakistan and giving Israel more ordinance to whack Palestinians with? I mean, c’mon! Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of Peace requirement for that prize?

 

If you have a message to the people of Earth, tell us what it is:

Long live the Republic! We shall prevail! Death to the New World Order!

Oh, and be nice to each other.

 

And finally, a question you can take anyway you like:  But Why?

Why not?

 

Here’s a photo titled, “INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD” 

You have 112 words.  Go.

 

MSG fast food, sodium fluoridated water, and mercury-contaminated high fructose corn syrup all mixed into a pasty sludge to be fed to political prisoners in Fema detention centers.

 

Or is it…? 0_o