University still holds me in a firm writers block, and even though I start new stories all the time, I'm never able to finish any these days...
So, to get my crative juices flowing... or, perhaps just for the sake of actually writing something, here's a list of the short-stories I've started writing recently.
Working titles:
Nightmare:
Inspired by a contest over at storywrite (about writing your nightmares), this story follows Dr.Dracudian and two trainees at an asylum for the criminally insane. The asylum turns out to have a supernatural edge, as well as beeing filled to the brink with murderers and other violet lunatics. Three old sisters (two inmates and the warden?) are to be important to the story, having something to do with the supernatural events that occur (a part that was present in my dream).
Sword and Sorcery:
Another story based on a SW-contest, this one is just a description of a fight so far. A man in a shiny armor kills his brother in a ghastly way, and is joined by a wizard before they dissappear to go for their next kill... In other words, no story present yet ;p
Villain:
The story opens with a man running through the rain in intense pain. He seeks shelter, and seems to be disoriented. When he breaks glass and cuts himself accidentally, he finds that his wounds regenerate, and that time slows down as they heal. In finding another person around, he discovers that he has acid touch, and he accidentally kills the other person. He's then shot, but as everything turns dark, he's rescued. When he comes to again, he's in a room with three others, who seem to know more about him than he does himself. They talk to him about an infection, resulting powers, and... it ends there, not sure where to take it :p
The Beauty:
Boy falls in love with girl, girl already has boyfriend. Boy must come to accept that it's more important for him to see the girl happy, than it is for him to be happy himself. The outline is there, it just needs to be heavily fleshed out ;) Also, my first romantic story in quite some while, even though this one has a distinct tragic outlook (like all my stories involving romance really :p)
Running:
The working title here comes from the fact that the story is just a description of someone running this far ;p It was supposed to be a slightly erotic, very gory werewolf story... But it's hard to write classic-monster stories without ending up cliche and downright bad, so I never really put much work into this one, although it would certainly be fun to expand upon it.
WoW love:
A poem about love, written in world of warcraft related metaphors... And yes, it's a comedy piece... (inspired by the popular songs rewritten as wow-songs done by Turpster and others, though this one isn't based on an already existing tune)
"IT" or "Dragons Child":
A story about a lonely creature who has roamed the earth for years. The creature tells his story, including how he met his only friend, a blind girl. The girl called him Dragons Child, because she found him to feel like the closest thing she could imagine to a Human-Dragon hybrid. The story leads up to Halloween, the only time the creature can walk among men. Where I'm currently in the writing process, the creature is picking up its costume, helped by the girl. The story was at first intended to show how the creature takes revenge upon a hateful human race, and goes on a rampage on halloween, but as the story came to be more and more about the girl and the relationship between the girl and the creature, I'm starting to lean towards a tragic end instead of a gorefest end.
Dead like us:
The story is told from the perspective of a ghost who lives in an old mansion. As I haven't written much, there is still two ways I'm considering to take this story:
1. The ghostly inhabitants of the place have to convince a newcomer that she's really dead, and show her how the afterlife really is
2. The ghost thinks the newcomer in the mansion is a ghost aswell, and tries to communicate, but doesn't realize that she's still alive - However, what happens when he manages to break through?
House on Mars:
A man who has lived the past thirty years on Mars as part of a small crew in an experiment returns to Earth after some sort of accident or event has destroyed civilization and radiated the entire planet. He walks through a cemetary, finding his eartly friends and loved ones, and waits for the radiation to kill him. Meanwhile, he thinks about his time on Earth, his time on Mars and all his regrets.
Whiskey:
A man sits in a bar, drinking whiskey (hence the title... duh ;p), in walks an underage prostitute. He goes outside with the girl, preventing anyone else from taking advantage of her. The two talk, and as the reach the other end of town, the girl confides in the man, who seems to be a good man. When they reach the docks, snow falling, no one around, the man kills the girl. He doesn't want her to go on living a miserable life, and so he leaves her with a smile on her face, and returns to the bar and his whiskey. I have the key components to the story, but again I just need to flesh it out.
So, that's it for this time... Hopefully I'll be able to finish one or more of these stories soon =)
