Ellis begins to write almost immediately after hearing the directions. He already had this idea running in his head, so it would be good to get some of the basics down in this 10 minute horror story exercise.
Recently, he watched _I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer_ and it was not good! Awful even. But the setting of the opening scene was interesting.
An amusement park. Lots of hiding pl...
Based up on the ‘Northlane’ song of the same name.
…
Don’t let me down,
This pain enough.
To make my head drown,
But my soul makes it tough.
You are killing me,
My heart made a haze.
When will I be free,
And out of this daze.
You said you didn’t deserve this,
But my body did over and over.
My hopes balled into a fist,
My bruises and scars no longer a cover.
Pull my heart out of the shadows,
L...
It’s easy to get lost in the underworld
Fingers snap then sins unfurl
Screams and giggles from dead little girls
Whose mothers and fathers had insults to hurl
Proof that innocence won’t elude evil
The worst can happen to the youngest people
Lies, dead ends, paths are whirled
It’s easy to get lost in the underworld...
Brielle taps her pencil on the desk. Trying to come up a horror short story in 10 minutes is a lot harder than she thought. It’s one thing to comment and discuss about already made movie or book, but to come up with one herself is a bit more difficult.
Maybe she should draw on what makes her scared.
There’s a lot. Spiders. The drops in roller coasters. Being alone in the quiet. Her own thought...
They always say the worst monsters are the ones we bring with us, and belief can bring salvation or destruction. To some extent I suppose both are true, I always believed that their was good in everyone. Even if it was small it was still there. And you can guess how well that turned out for me when I was walking home alone at night and got murdered by a drive by.
The monsters we bring with us are...
As the one light above his desk flickered he rubbed his temples and noticed the lack of noisy keyboard strokes. Of course his coworkers had left him to finish the rest of the work.
He was the new guy around here and had only been in town a couple months. His apartment was only a few blocks away, so he decided to give it five more minutes then walk home.
After he gathered his things and took the...
Don't walk home alone, _they said_.
Don't walk home alone in an alley, _they said_.
Don't walk home alone without your phone, _they said._
Don't walk home alone without looking behind you, _they said._
Don't walk home alone without anyone knowing where you are, _they said_.
Don't walk home alone with your hands in your pocket, _they said._
Don't walk home alone without being faster than the one...
He know it the only way back.
He gets a running start. There’s no turning back. Each step another creak ,another crack. The wood is more fragile than he thought. He make a last jump and splashes into the lake.
The water extinguishes his cigarette. As he sinks the cig lets off his lips and he watches it float up to the waters surface like a missile.
_I can't do this. I’ve died once and I came b...
It was Saturday morning, the first day of the weekend and the first day since my parents left for their tropical getaway out of country. They left yesterday, at noon, and they let me stay home from school. They departed with their suitcases and tropical shirts and sunglasses, awaiting the airport in an lighthearted mood. I watched them drive off in our grey Honda Chevy. About a month ago, my mothe...
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