About Leah Rhyne

Leah Rhyne is a Jersey girl who's lived in the South long enough to lose her accent, but not her attitude nor her love for Bon Jovi and the Boss. She's a full time software tester, wife, mom, and novelist, which makes life a little busy. In her "spare" time she enjoys running, yoga-ing, and playing fetch with her hound dog.
Website: http://www.leahrhyne.com/
Leah Rhyne has written 9 articles so far, you can find them below.


Practicing The Zombie Apocalypse: The rUNdead 5K

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I was DYING to try! I grew UP on zombie flicks! Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later still gives me nightmares! I HAD to see if I could survive a zombie apocalypse.

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The Unchained Tour: Charleston Edition

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AKA: The Night I Met Neil Gaiman and Didn’t Get My Picture With Edgar Oliver. On Friday night, The Unchained Tour came to Charleston, South Carolina, one of the final stops on their heart-shaped trip around the southeast.

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Passage of Time Test: C.H.U.D.

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I kicked. I screamed. I howled. All under the guise of a headache, massively exacerbated by the noisy subway system. People stared! And my poor mother had no idea of the real cause. It was all thanks to C.H.U.D.

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Being Brave with Zoe

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My daughter is four, and has an unrelenting fear of witches. Brave has a witch, and spells, and bears, and pushed her comfort zone a little. But thanks to the peer pressure of preschool, soon we were on our way to the movies: my husband, me, Zoe, and Zoe’s stuffed rabbit, Funny Bunny.

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The Passage of Time Test: Swamp Thing

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This certainly wasn’t a movie created for high-def. I don’t think the film was even high quality for its day, and on my TV, it was downright blurry.

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Prometheus: One Mom’s Take

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Four years ago, my daughter was delivered by c-section. Thanks to a slight hospital snafu, I was given nothing stronger than extra-strength Tylenol.

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When Fiction Becomes Reality

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By now, you’ve probably read about the man who got his face eaten off by another man on the side of a Miami causeway. If you’re like me, that story made you stop and shudder, and also to wonder, more than half-jokingly: Is this the start of the Zombie Apocalypse?

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The Passage of Time Test: Hellraiser

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Hellraiser came out in 1987. I was eight. Pictures of the white-faced Hellraiser guy with pins sticking out of his head sent me running. Literally running, from the TV or the poster or wherever I saw him glare at me.

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High Hopes for Prometheus

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I want a bad-ass kid, like Newt. Because, as a kid myself, I loved her. Wanted to be her. I mimicked her shriek; I said “aaaafirmative.” And then, in the Third Movie Which Shall Not Be Referred to By Name, they killed her. Bastards.

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