Withersin’s Damned Interview with:
Barbara Mulcahy
I am married, English, though
we have been living in
I have a very large herb garden
and grow all my own organic fruit and veg. I sound too good to be true don’t I?
List published works:
Meander Magazine -
Doorways Magazine -
Chat magazine – flash fiction
List website: coming soon
How can we contact you? barbara.mulcahy@free.fr
In your own words, define
Withersin.
A
good mix of horror – aimed at all ages and social classes
I’m
afraid I can’t describe your magazine better as I haven’t read a copy.
If you were a sideshow act,
what would you be?
An acrobat
– I have one phobia and that is a fear of heights. If I were an acrobat I wouldn’t suffer from
it.
What is your greatest
non-literary influence?
Can
I seem very shallow and say that unconsciously I can’t think of anything or
anyone that has influenced my life.
Describe your most
irrational fear.
Being
in an aero plane and knowing it was definitely going to crash thirty minutes
beforehand. There again that is not
irrational is it? I would say fear of
heights again.
How about your most guilty
pleasure?
Suffering
from high cholesterol and having to take medication for it every day, there is
nothing more indulgent than stuffing as much milk chocolate in my mouth as
possible and savoring every delicious second.
Pure bliss.
Name the most disturbing
nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.
Rock-a-bye-baby
-
I
always imagined people throwing babies in cots from the tops of trees.
Do you eat meat?
I
was a veggie for over 20 years. When I
came to
What were the skies like
when you were young?
Always
blue. Never remembered
any rain – especially in the school holidays.
Name your favorite garden
tool.
A small hand trowel - being able to get rid of what I
didn’t want in the garden and to be able to plant what I did.
Name your least favorite
color, first job and worst job.
Pastel
blue
First
job was advertised as a shorthand typist but I just made the tea and did a bit
of filing if I was lucky.
Worst job – Doing market research in a really low class
area.
Especially product tests where I had to go back to ask their views on
the product I had left. I really loved
the job, did it for nearly 20 years but some of the houses had you itching all
over when you came out. I carried bite cream and flea spray in the
car.
Favorite: Author,
Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.
John
Connolly
The
Birds
Pink
Floyd
I
Can See Clearly Now (the rain has gone)
`A
good arse speaks for itself’ (when someone has passed
wind) – er, sorry
If you were a loaf of bread
what kind would you be?
A good wholemeal with seeds and
nuts.
Really good for you if you take the trouble to try me
out. Some horrible people would
always break a tooth on me though.
Weirdest news you have read
in your local newspaper:
A
farmer in our area had to pay 60,000 euros to have electricity put in his home
for the first time in 300 years (age of house not farmer) His comment? “I can’t stop ringing the doorbell.”
Why Horror?
It’s
the be all and end all with me. It
started when we tried to contact spirits when we were away at scout camp when I
was about 13 years old. The glass spelt
out – Dan Green, Highway Robber, Hung.
Most of the girls were petrified, one actually wet her sleeping bag but
I was fascinated.
Here's a photo. (seen on Interview main
page)
“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”
You have 112 words. Go.
Homer
looked sideways at his wife as he drove. "If only" he thought.
He cleared his throat and began.
"We had a good marriage to start with My Lord but she became bitchy,
viper tongued and vicious.
He looked at the tanker that had just pulled in front of him "I have
had to put up with inedible food not intended for human consumption for
25 years."
"One day when she was screaming at me I picked up the hammer and bashed
her head in over and over again".
"What the hell are you blathering about now" his wife shrieked as she
started to wake up".
"Just practising dear, just practising."
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