Lost and Found: A Stone Canyon Story
For my second story this month, I've selected Lost and Found: A Stone Canyon Story.
Lost and Found acts as something of a prequel to Stone Canyon, a story I wrote about a year and a half ago. It deals with three friends who go on a camping trip in search of the elusive creature known as Bigfoot. Well, they find him and...
You can probably guess where it goes from there.
This story wasn't originally intended as a prequel. I've been fascinated with Bigfoot since my childhood but I think the idea of people encountering a big ape in the woods is fairly limited from a narrative standpoint. I had already told the story once and didn't see the need to recycle the concept again.
This story started out as The Creature of Gray Oaks and the basic idea was more or less the same. Two children are abducted and taken to a forest that's supposedly inhabited by a large lizard-like animal. The children have heard stories about it for their entire lives but don't know what to believe. When they arrive, it looks like all is lost but then the creature appears and eviscerates the children's abductor before disappearing back into the forest.
The story sounded a little thin and anemic to me. I considered abandoning it altogether before deciding it would actually work as a Stone Canyon story and feel fairly fresh to boot. I set in the early 90s to give the story a nostalgic feel while also adding to the mythology of Stone Canyon.
And I'm quite pleased with the results. See you next week for a robbery gone terribly wrong (complete with demon dogs and crazy old men).
Lost and Found: A Stone Canyon Story
Lost and Found acts as something of a prequel to Stone Canyon, a story I wrote about a year and a half ago. It deals with three friends who go on a camping trip in search of the elusive creature known as Bigfoot. Well, they find him and...
You can probably guess where it goes from there.
This story wasn't originally intended as a prequel. I've been fascinated with Bigfoot since my childhood but I think the idea of people encountering a big ape in the woods is fairly limited from a narrative standpoint. I had already told the story once and didn't see the need to recycle the concept again.
This story started out as The Creature of Gray Oaks and the basic idea was more or less the same. Two children are abducted and taken to a forest that's supposedly inhabited by a large lizard-like animal. The children have heard stories about it for their entire lives but don't know what to believe. When they arrive, it looks like all is lost but then the creature appears and eviscerates the children's abductor before disappearing back into the forest.
The story sounded a little thin and anemic to me. I considered abandoning it altogether before deciding it would actually work as a Stone Canyon story and feel fairly fresh to boot. I set in the early 90s to give the story a nostalgic feel while also adding to the mythology of Stone Canyon.
And I'm quite pleased with the results. See you next week for a robbery gone terribly wrong (complete with demon dogs and crazy old men).
Lost and Found: A Stone Canyon Story
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