Abandon - Introduction

I entered this story in a UK competition. I liked it a lot. The list of winners is up now and, well; I'm not on it. This means though that I can publish it up here on my own website.

I actually spent a couple of days on this story. Sometimes- well often- I do little monologues. I started this story with the usual monologue and wrote a bit. I put it down and the next day I wrote another little monologue. I set a task to join the two.

I really don't know the process but I think two monologues would mean two themes. There are definitely two themes to this one and I'm extremely pleased with it...

The Competition - Introduction

I'm supposed to be instilling a sense of paranoia with this one. A creapiness that comes with the idea that what we consume everyday is not really what it is supposed to be.
During the last story; A story basically about Sugar I spilt beer on my keyboard and had to purchase a new one. The new one isn't that great and the 'o' key needs to be hit really hard.
When rereading and editing this I found all the 'o' s missing which was disconcerting.

I like the story, it's a little to extreme to submit it too anything though.

A story basically about Sugar - Introduction

I like this story; basically it's a romp.
I wrote it a few weeks ago but could not put it up on my site because I submitted it to an Australian Science Fiction / Horror Magazine. Anything on my site cannot really be submitted anywhere else.
Well; when they rejected it I was not too fazed because now I can publish it here. I am starting to really like my site and find it a dreadful shame to hold back stories that I think are above standard.
It was rejected on the grounds of 'being overwritten and that it does not go anywhere' and that's fine by me. A playful romp, a story which is farcical by nature seems to require to be overwritten and go nowhere at all.

After rereading it I found I love the two characters and there may be room for a few more of these little romps.

Voting and Stats - Support groups

I had to take off the Poll at the bottom of the page as I posted a new story. Before I took it off though Support groups was getting the most votes. Also Support groups was getting the most page hits.

Shows what I know, I wrote it and then read it and found it unusually cruel. It's actually growing on me though.

Finding Farley - Introduction

I usually start off writing, a small amount of planning in my head. A lot less planning than what I do for novels, I find it a lot more entertaining to sometimes not know where the story is going to take me. I usually add the title either half way through writing or at the end. Sometimes I even add it days later.
Finding Farley started with the title, no idea where I was going at all.
Half way through writing I stopped and started looking up all I could about Fairies (or Faeries for the pedantically inclined -:D-) Read some really interesting stuff that may even be used in another story.

It looks like I'm going to be doing short stories in two avenues, normal horror/fiction and those of the fairy tale incline. So far I have Finding Farley and The Jaga and the Kaax.

I like the idea of Fairies not being that cute and having to pay a duty to hell.

Even after doing the reading on Fairies I still had no idea where the story was going. I just kept writing and it was only towards the end that I realised what was going to happen. I think there's this little person in my head that sometimes has it all planned out for me but only gives me portions as I go along.

I think I've said that before here.

Oh well, it makes it all very interesting.

Support Groups - Introduction

I'm not too keen on this story. But I did not choose it, it chose me.

I wrote this other wierd arse story and I was quietly editing and rewriting it. Suddenly I'm writing this one. An hour and a bit later its glaring at me from the screen.

I got that little buzz that I get when I've finished writing something.

Then I read it.

The buzz is gone, it's an evil little ditty.

Strays - Introduction

This was just something small that I whipped up. Trying to keep the language as basic as possible is nearly impossible for me as is the reluctance to not remove all those Ain't s. It probably still needs a lot of work as I only gave it a quick proof read. I think I still need to dumb it down a bit.

But hey, something odd. It's a rare occurrence that no one dies.

P.S. Please don't think I'm picking on red heads.

The Jaga And The Kaax - Introduction

Okay, as I said before the previous story came on the heels of another story. Just popped up like the left foot follows the right. This is the previous story.
Like all stories these days I was aware of it bouncing around prominently in my head. I decided to look up a few things before hand.
The Jaga refers to Baba-Yaga, originally pronounced Jaga in the original Slavic tongue. A witch of folklore basically. Baba meaning old lady or something.
The Kaax refers to the Yum-Kaax, known both as the Lord of the woods and also the God of Maize.
It was a good story to write, set a scene, which is a puzzle and then let all the pieces fall into place. I found myself a little sad towards the end. It was really satisfying to put the last full stop in.
There may be a few changes in the future to this but as it is at the moment I'm happy.
If anything I should be editing my novels. :(
Well, enjoy......

Life And Death Of A Sitcom - Introduction

Okay, I guess I'll put an introduction to this story. Finished another story which was a lot more emotional and this one just trailed after it the next day. Bounced around my head all day and then I just sat and typed it out.

It's light and I like it, there is a lot of swearing but often my lighter stories do have a lot more of the curse words. It goes with the story though, guess you'll have to read it.....