@Ver_acity: An interactive Halloween story

Halloween is one of my favourite times of year, and I love using it as an excuse to write something spooky. One of my older Halloween stories is “The Ghost of Gold and Grey,” which is both on Wattpad and as an audio recording through Pseudopod.

I wasn’t planning on doing anything this year, but then my friend and former student Emily Still and I were writing at the pub, and she showed me the Dear David tweets on Twitter, about a dude possibly haunted by a ghost of a child named David. We started talking about how fun it’d be to do an interactive, creepy story via Twitter, and we started brainstorming. A few days later, we did some psychogeography around Edinburgh at night, taking some creepy pictures, and then plotted out the story.

It ended up morphing into something like a Scottish Stranger Things, starring an angry, lonely queer girl named Ver, featuring witches, ghosts, tree roots, green lights, scratching behind graves, and more. Follow @ver_acity throughout October to see what she finds. If you interact with her, she’ll likely respond in character, and there’s a chance you can influence the story.