In Darkness

I didn’t completely give up on the idea of posting reports of my writing efforts… but I thought doing so every day was a tad bit insane. Instead, I’ll try once a week. So here is a log of last week’s work:
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I kiss one round and gently set it aside. That one’s for me. Now that those things are inside the facility, there’s only one way this can end. But that won’t be for a while yet. I’ve got thirty unopened crates of bullets standing between me and my lovely. Ah, good… here they come now.

I see from the incessant stream of commercials on its website that the SciFi channel has a movie coming out called “Tin Man,” which is apparently a re-imagining of the classic Wizard of Oz tale.

It reminded me of a conversation I had with my wife years ago. Went something like this:

Me: “You know, I’ve always thought that the Wizard of Oz had a lot of untapped horror potential. Especially that scarecrow…”
Wife: …shocked silence. then…
Wife: “You wouldn’t dare. That would be SO wrong! That’s a children’s story!”
Me: “Not if I wrote it.”

Well, I DIDN’T… then. But since the SciFi channel brought it up, I’m wondering…

1500 words on New Order.
Yeah, this is starting to get annoying already.

1100 words on “New Order,” a horror story.