Writing HORRORWhen writing a Horror story, one must begin with a Monster. The most terrifying of course, are the ones you don't notice, or refuse to notice. The ones right next to you."The most dangerous werewolves are the ones that are hairy on the inside."-- A Company of WolvesMaking a MONSTERThink, who are the people that walk right up to you every day and you let them? Your neighbors Your co-workers Your friends Your lover Your parents Your siblings Your childrenNow imagine if one of them was a man-slaughtering or even man-eating Monster?In reality, it happens all the tim
Little Red Ballgown - StoryLittle Red Ballgown -- A Little-Red-Cinderella Tale~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Imagine if Cinderella had been told like a Red Riding Hood tale--or vice versa?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shortly after Little Red's narrow escape from the Big Bad Wolf, by way of the village's local stalker...err, hunter, Little Red decided that it was clearly much too dangerous to live out in the country, so she decided to guilt trip her parents into moving to the City.After waking up one too many times in the middle of the night from Little Red's shrieking, "The wolf's gonna get me...! Nooooo!" her parents finally gave in. They packed up the pony cart and moved out of
Nocturne - Visual Novel DraftNOCTURNE~ Prelude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The sharp crack of thunder startled me awake and upright -- in a chair.The shadowed room I was in was tiny. The space was barely large enough for the chair I sat in and the battered round table beside it. The room's floor to ceiling window was actually within my hand's reach.I didn't recognize any of it. For several baffled moments, I simply sat there in the dark hearing nothing but the storm.Lightning flashed, illuminating the sharply peaked ceiling and faded green wallpaper.I knew that wallpaper. I was there when my mother had chosen it for the attic rooms above the servants' quarters. I hadn't