The Room in the Veins
This morning I gave "The Room" another read and picked up a few more details that needed tending to. I took out some, added some, and in the end raised the word count about 25 words. Nothing major, but the things I caught were small details I had never found any of the other dozens of times I'd read that story since writing it. This is one of the reasons it's sometimes hard for me to go back and re-read an old story; I know I'm going to find things I should have found a long time ago and it's going to shake my confidence in the story. But this is a good story, I think. The idea of it is a good idea, not one I've read before, and told in the best way that suits this situation. I think. So we'll see how it turns out.
The next project is another new first draft, not related to the series of 6 I'm currently smack in the middle of. In fact, this one's been causing me a small amount of stress the closer I get to working on it. It's way outside my comfort zone.
Meanwhile, let's talk more about Fate and the chapbooks I showed off yesterday.
The first story in the collection, and one of the earliest stories I ever wrote, was "In the Veins". Originally this story was called "The Claustrophobic" because I was in high school and was trying to write a story about fear. That was a stupid title, though. I knew it then and a few years later when I gave the story a complete re-write I changed the title to something a little more vague. "In the Veins".
This is a story about fear, panic, delusion, paranoia.
Years ago I heard about this local Halloween attraction called The Catacombs. From what I understood at the time, groups of people were led into these underground catacombs and let loose to find their way out. So I imagined myself doing something like that. And I think it may be fun for the first fifteen, twenty minutes. But after a while, I think the feeling of being trapped would get to me and I'd probably lose my usually cool exterior. Of course, the longer I thought about it, the less likely it seemed that something like this really existed, at least not in this town. And if it ever did, it certainly didn't exist in the form of the Catacombs in this story.
The chapbook version of the story is 33 pages and comes with a free bonus story, "Mistress", another personal favorite. I think together the pair works as a themed coupling, both stories dealing with main characters who find themselves in situations outside their comfort zones where it seems everything around them is happening in this surreal alternate landscape and they're both just searching for escape that seems as if it's never going to come.
You can get these stories in either print or ebook formats from various places. CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3964113) has the print version, as does Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/In-Veins-C-Denn...). Amazon also has the Kindle version (http://www.amazon.com/In-the-Veins-eb...), as does Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...), which also has the story for various other reading devices like Kobo, Nook and Sony Readers. The ebook version is $2.99, while the chapbook is a mere $4.99.
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The next project is another new first draft, not related to the series of 6 I'm currently smack in the middle of. In fact, this one's been causing me a small amount of stress the closer I get to working on it. It's way outside my comfort zone.
Meanwhile, let's talk more about Fate and the chapbooks I showed off yesterday.
The first story in the collection, and one of the earliest stories I ever wrote, was "In the Veins". Originally this story was called "The Claustrophobic" because I was in high school and was trying to write a story about fear. That was a stupid title, though. I knew it then and a few years later when I gave the story a complete re-write I changed the title to something a little more vague. "In the Veins".
This is a story about fear, panic, delusion, paranoia.
Years ago I heard about this local Halloween attraction called The Catacombs. From what I understood at the time, groups of people were led into these underground catacombs and let loose to find their way out. So I imagined myself doing something like that. And I think it may be fun for the first fifteen, twenty minutes. But after a while, I think the feeling of being trapped would get to me and I'd probably lose my usually cool exterior. Of course, the longer I thought about it, the less likely it seemed that something like this really existed, at least not in this town. And if it ever did, it certainly didn't exist in the form of the Catacombs in this story.
The chapbook version of the story is 33 pages and comes with a free bonus story, "Mistress", another personal favorite. I think together the pair works as a themed coupling, both stories dealing with main characters who find themselves in situations outside their comfort zones where it seems everything around them is happening in this surreal alternate landscape and they're both just searching for escape that seems as if it's never going to come.
You can get these stories in either print or ebook formats from various places. CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3964113) has the print version, as does Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/In-Veins-C-Denn...). Amazon also has the Kindle version (http://www.amazon.com/In-the-Veins-eb...), as does Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...), which also has the story for various other reading devices like Kobo, Nook and Sony Readers. The ebook version is $2.99, while the chapbook is a mere $4.99.
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