A day off, but join me on Sunday for a Autumn treat

Hello everyone!

As I mentioned last week, I’m taking today off, both because I needed a break, and to work on a few other writing projects. But dont worry! We’ll be back next Thursday as we begin the second chapter of The Book of Lost Tales, part 2, Turambar and the Foalókë.

In the meantime I have a special treat for everyone since we are just about to start Fall. I’ve been working on a new series of scary short shorts, in a similar vein of the Universal Monster shorts I posted a couple of years ago. I was particularly inspired when writing the story “Born to Run” which was loosely based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Music has always inspired me in my writing, and setting that story int he 80’s with the background of Bruce Springsteen made for a particularly interesting story for me.

That spurned me on to begin a new project that had a basis in song. Each one of the new shorts would have a song that informs the story. Some of the songs wont be readily apparent in the text, but they will all have some meaning to the story and I will call out the song in the description, so if you want to listen along while you read, I would be delighted to hear your results!

But now that I had the music background, what would I do for the basis of the stories? The Universal Monsters was easy because I just went through all the old movies I loved watching when I was a kid. That made me think. What other movies was I watching as a kid? What other culture has been in the popular consciousness lately? 80’s pop culture!

This series of shorts (I wish I could have them all done by Halloween, but realistically I’ll probably only have one or two more), is based heavily in those movies, just told with my own spin.

Movies such as Fright Night, The Thing, The Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, Night of the Comet, Friday the 13th, and more. They will all have a part in these stories.

SO what comes first? It’s a little story called “Somebody’s Watching Me.” It’s music inspiration is a song by the same name sung by Rockwell and Michael Jackson, and the 80’s movie inspiration is Sleepaway Camp/Friday the 13th. Join me Sunday 09/17/23 for the new experience!