The Unsettled Shelf

Reborn Dolls, TikTok, and the Real Inspiration Behind My Horror Novel Play Dead

A harmless TikTok scroll and a creator who was completely clear that the babies were dolls gave me one terrible question: what if one of them wasn’t? This is the real creative spark behind Play Dead.

The Character Who Made Me Stop Writing

Dr. Elias Shepherd was the character who made me stop writing for a while. This is what happened when The Grief Counselor became harder to stay inside than I expected.