Oct. 3, 2023
Episode Two – The Hidden Beast
For the Hidden Beast short story, I was inspired by a snow hike I did in Breckenridge, Colorado. It was a beautiful hike, yet I couldn’t help but notice how eerily quiet it was, except for the crunching of the snow underneath my snow shoes. So, this eeriness manifested into this creature in my mind, but I didn’t want the story to be so clean-cut. Hence, I added the notion that perhaps it's all in the main character’s head or maybe not. The title also came from the idea of whether it’s something hidden inside his mind. You can decide for yourself if it’s real or a figment of his imagination.
What You Look For
Fatima was standing in front of the one place she had promised herself to stay away from. It stood decrepit, yet it induced fear and loathing in her. The two floor Victorian held for her memories of hopes, desires, and darkness. Fatima hesitated, th…
Predicting the Unknown
Howard wiped the sweat off his deeply wrinkled forehead. The sun beamed down on his thinning scalp mercilessly as he tried to prune the tomato plants he had growing on his acreage. His crew had missed a few of them, and so he pruned the sucklings fr…
