![]() Eventually, I began using handpicked episodes in my classroom to teach different lessons. However, it wasn’t until about ten years ago I started making sure to catch the New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day TWZ marathon on the SyFy Channel every year. Of course in high school we read several of the teleplays aloud (“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” being a textbook staple), and I have hazy memories of watching an episode or two of the mid-eighties reboot on television as a kid. I discovered The Twilight Zone late in life. One of those writers is the inimitable Charles Beaumont. ![]() ![]() On one hand, I’m eminently grateful for the work they produced on the other hand, I can only imagine what they could’ve accomplished if they’d lived longer. Just as I’ve discovered writers who only wrote a handful of stories and then, for a variety of reasons, didn’t write anymore, I’ve also discovered writers whose careers - and lives - were sadly cut short before they could reach their fullest potential. ![]()
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