WRITING OBSTACLE
By Kevin Grieve @ Unsplash

Open a horror or thriller story with the scene of a duck gently touching down in misty waters.
The Monster of the Pond
Justas the duck’s wings hit the water a loud growl emerges from the depths. “grawwwwwwww” something of great mass is the only thing tht couldexcerpt a sound like that from its bellows.
I go for a closer look, what’s the worst that could happen you know, yeah the worst definetly happened.
I take one step into the water and as my foot leaves even the smalest ripple in the what-seens-to-be-a pond, a very large sea monster of great porportions comes out. It had yellow eyes with lime geen pupils. A row of scales covered its fleshly body and a single one of its gills could fit ten men in them.
I survived, but just barely, the monster used its tongue t enwrap around my foot as it pulled me closer to its large teeth filled mouth by the second.
Thankfully, I ws able to use my knife to cut its tngue just enough that it snapped off from the tension of having to trudge my body.
Yep, my body physically healed, but mentlly, never…