Nicole Degennaro, what scares you?
Like most people, I have fears that range from the mundane to the irrational. Instead of picking one or providing a list, I wanted to figure out the common link between them, and I think I have. What scares me is my own imagination. That is what transforms those bumps in the night into monsters or killers, what morphs something like climbing a tall ladder into a terrifying life-or-death situation. My imagination can’t let the “What ifs” go, and although I appreciate that when it comes to my writing, I don’t enjoy it as much when I’m trying to fall asleep or change a light bulb.

NICOLE DEGENNARO currently works as a copy editor for a science publisher and lives in the Hudson Valley area of New York. Although she studied journalism at Purchase College, her heart has always belonged to fiction writing. Her short story Home Coming will appear in the upcoming anthology Scared Spitless from Silly Tree Anthologies, due out in October. You can learn more about Nicole at her blog: http://nicoledegennaro.wordpress.com/.