Beware—This Way Lies Spoilers
What is a content warning?
Sometimes called CW (content warning) or TW (trigger warning), a content warning is similar to the content advisory seen at the top of a movie or TV show: They both help viewers/readers make informed decisions about what they watch/read. With movies, the warnings tend to be listed generally, often as a single word—Violence, Nudity, Language, that kind of thing. For books, content warnings tend to be more specific, and they can—and mine indeed do—contain spoilers.
If you would pick up a Stephen King book without a second thought as to the appropriateness of its content, then I invite you to please do the same with my work: go back to the book and turn the page.
CONTENT WARNING
My work contains content that some readers may find uncomfortable, triggering, or otherwise unsuitable. This may include but may not be limited to:
Girl, Incorrupted: a love-horror story
Movie Style
Fear, Decomposition-Related Gore, Murder, Violence, Mental Illness, Disability, Body Image, Neglect, Manipulation, Drinking, Language.
Specifics/Spoilers
Illness and Disabilities – visual and auditory hallucinations, trivialization and dismissive discussion of mental illness, fantastical condition similar to paralysis, life-changing disabilization, curing of disabilities, ableist language
Gore and Death – blood, cuts, stitches, descriptions of human decomposition, graphic description of death by fantastical means, ritualistic physical trauma, mention of suicide/pregnant suicide
Body Image – body comparison and emulation, body shaming, fat phobia
Other – discussion of homelessness, suggestion of childhood neglect, calling someone a bitch and defending it, pressure to pose nude in public and in contact with another person, abandonment of an inebriated/incapacitated person, violent/unwanted touching/grabbing, manipulation, gaslighting, insects, vomiting, swear words
If you feel that something is missing, please send an email to megan@meganbledsoe.com.
Megan Bledsoe 