Subject: 'boring snoring' is a wonderful rhyme I didn't know I needed
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Posted on: 2018-11-22 17:04:00 UTC
Though now I have to wonder - is 'Nana' a ghost? Or other type of nonhuman? Clearly she must be benevolent, if she loves young children!
... Not that I expect said young child to still be a child much longer after this story ends, but still.
I wrote a story for a small-scale writing competition run by a local publishing outlet called Whirling Chair. The brief was a horror story, so I tried to mess with expectations and do one from the point of view of a much younger person. I was one of the winners and got to read the piece at their "Tea, Toast, and Ghosts" evening, as well as receiving a promise that it would be published. A year has passed, and they seem to have all but disappeared off the face of the Earth, which... well, I feel somewhat irked. Oh well.
This said, here's my entry: Nana. I hope you all enjoy it.
CW: violence, scariness, Comic Sans. =]
I can't tell what's actually going on (which makes complete sense, the viewpoint character's a little kid and so probably isn't going to be looking for rational explanations), but, whatever reality is in this story, it's something scary and messed-up. And the poor kid doesn't realize it.
If you wanted the reader to be rather disoriented bus still horrified/scared/..., you've succeeded.
- Tomash
Though now I have to wonder - is 'Nana' a ghost? Or other type of nonhuman? Clearly she must be benevolent, if she loves young children!
... Not that I expect said young child to still be a child much longer after this story ends, but still.