Carrie the One

Horror Author

Carrie the One

Carrie the One (any pronouns) is a bearded drag queen, content creator, and lifelong horror fan based in Bangor, Maine. Her love of the genre started early: some of her first memories are seeing Jurassic Park in theaters and watching A Nightmare on Elm Street with her sisters when she was probably way too young. She has been writing poetry, songs, and short stories since she was a kid and is currently at work on her debut novels, Ice Out, a...

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Ice Out

Spring is coming. Not everyone will live to see it.

Deep in the Maine woods, winter is finally loosening its grip on a small college campus. The ice is breaking up, the seniors are counting down the days to graduation, and someone in a mask has started counting too.

It begins with one body, but it doesn't stop there. As the semester thaws and the...

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October 5, 2026

I'm Spending 90 Days at a Maine College Where People Keep Dying

Some people ease into fall with apple cider and a new sweater, but me? I've signed up to spend the next three months at a small Maine college where the students keep turning up dead.

The book is called Ice Out, and I've given myself 90 days to take it all the way to The End. This post is the starting gun. Here's the plan, what the book is about (no spoilers, I promise), and how you can follow along while it comes together.

The plan: 90 days

The clock started on October 1 and runs through the end...