Pip: Ms Coletha’s Blog this week is doing what it does best — holding a mirror up and daring you to look away.
Mara: MsColetha covers real ground here: direct confrontations about accountability, and a dark piece of supernatural fiction that uses demonic possession to talk about self-destruction and the company we keep.
Pip: Let’s start with the short-form videos, where the message is anything but short.
Accountability in under a minute
Pip: The territory here is confrontation — the kind that doesn’t leave room for excuses. Two short-form videos making a pointed case about what people owe and how they conduct themselves.
Mara: The first video, Pay What You OWE, sets the frame directly in its title. The post delivers that message without softening it: “Pay What You OWE.”
Pip: Which is doing a lot of work in four words. The upshot is simple — someone hasn’t settled up, and the audience is being told plainly that the debt is real and the clock is running.
Mara: Don’t play operates in the same register. Where Pay What You OWE is about obligation, Don’t play is about conduct — a warning against games, deflection, or performance in place of honesty.
Pip: Together they form something like a two-part statement: here is what you owe, and here is how you need to stop behaving while you still haven’t paid it. Short format, no softening.
Mara: That directness is the point. The brevity isn’t a limitation — it’s the argument.
Pip: Speaking of things that linger long past their welcome, the fiction here takes that same theme of self-destruction somewhere much darker.
Demons, devotion, and a life on fire
Pip: “Embers to Embers” is a supernatural horror story, but the horror is really about two people who chose destruction so thoroughly it became their identity.
Mara: The story introduces Ariel and Joshua early with this: “She deformed him and he disfigured her. Two, once young beautiful people now disfigured, malformed…ugly inside and out.”
Pip: That’s the whole story in two sentences. The demons that possess them later are almost beside the point — these two had already hollowed each other out long before any ritual.
Mara: The possession itself is framed as a consequence of choices made in youth. They were kicked from their homes, driven by self-hatred, and the story is explicit that they resisted every path out. The ending — combustion, ash, and entities still loose in the city — leaves the damage ongoing.
Pip: Resilience is conspicuously absent here, which feels intentional. This is the cautionary side of the coin.
Mara: The scripture woven through the piece reinforces exactly that — the cost of the company you keep and the life you choose to inhabit.
Pip: Accountability, possession, the company you keep — it’s a consistent thread across very different formats.
Mara: Short video or long fiction, the question underneath is the same: what are you willing to reckon with? More from Ms Coletha’s Blog next time.
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