Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror - a social media experiment

Baby Teeth is a collection of flash fiction horror stories written by NZ and American authors in response to a Reddit.com thread 'Creepy things kids say'. All proceeds from sales of the book go to children's' literacy charity Duffy Books in Homes. But these stories are not for kids! In fact, don't read them in the dark. You have been warned!

Here's the Yahoo!NZ story:

A social media experiment that resulted in the creation of a book of horror stories is set to raise money for charity.
Baby Teeth – Bite Sized Tales of Terror is a collection of scary stories by Kiwi writers, many of whom met for the first time on Facebook.
Inspired by a quirky thread on the social media site www.reddit.com entitled ‘creepy stuff kids say’*, Wellington writer Dan Rabarts started a Facebook page to continue the theme and get people writing. He said he had no idea at the time if a Facebook group was the best way to keep track of it. Read more...



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