Story: 365 Shorts #17

Ok, here’s a second story to make up for last weekend’s missed post.

This is another short “Surprise! End of the world” type one-shots. I seem to remember writing a lot of these. The idea of some sudden supernatural disaster occurring in an urban setting is just so appealing to me. It’s also the plot of a few of my favorite video games (all the games in the Devil Survivor series). Maybe this says something about me, haha.

I think I’m going to go back and see what else I can tag with “surprise monsters”.

Length: 503 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#17. “There is no time to explain.”

Story: 365 Shorts #9

I felt a bit too under the weather to do much of anything that required thought last weekend. I’m going to try and post a second thing tonight to make up for it and try to keep a habit from forming.

This is the ninth story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I think this was about the time in the project that I started making an effort to name the characters and to use names I wouldn’t normally pick. Not much else to say about this one, except that I apparently like the idea of creepy things happening in places that serve delicious coffee and baked goods.

Length: 980 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#16. “Okay, pal, who are you?”

Story: 365 Shorts #4

A little late with this week’s story update. After two hours of exercise followed by a few hours of socializing at a luncheon, I was too exhausted to do much yesterday. I blame the socializing, mostly. I always need quite a bit of recharge time after parties.

Anyway, this is the fourth story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. It was originally a bit longer in the middle, but I cut out a few paragraphs that didn’t seem to add anything to the story. It actually feels like I took out more than I did, because of how much more I like it now.

Length: 793 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#46. It was coming from her leg.

Story: 365 Shorts #1

The first story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I’ve always loved reading and watching things about cryptozoology and I’ve felt a kind of possessive pride for this particular cryptid ever since I first saw cartoon images of it as a child attending the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC. I might do more with these characters later; I haven’t decided yet.

Length: 894 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#53. “Are you gone?!”

Story: 365 Shorts #20

This is from my “365 Days of Shorts” project. It’s shorter than I thought it was (probably due to my being bad at estimating word count while writing by hand). I don’t have any plans for these characters or their world at the moment; I’m pretty happy with it as a short, one-shot kind of thing.

Length: 451 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#19. “Say that you accept.”

Story: Long Distance Lizard Ride

To start off this writing blog, I thought I’d revise and post an old short story of mine. I wrote it on a bus trip between Boston and NYC, hence the travel theme. It stars the main characters of one of my completed novels, To Live, which is about the exploitation of the Earth’s resources by aliens and the humans working for and against those aliens. This short is something of a slice of Richard’s life after the end of the book.

Story title: Long Distance Lizard Ride
Length: 930 words.
Genre: Sci-fi
Characters: Angel, Richard