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a devil in the guise of an angel
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Hey watchers.
I know it's been a long long long time since I've posted anything, especially literary wise, and I don't know about y'all but that makes me sad. So I wanted to share some of what I've got so far on the next chapter for Nightmare pt 2.


Now she was in study hall, sitting in the library in the furthest table back, trying to distance herself from other teens and their sneering looks (like they've never seen a girl wearing black before, she thought), the earbuds from her MP3 plugged into her ears, the wires concealed under her shirt and her hair. She kept herself occupied by working on a new drawing, her head kept propped upright by her chin in her palm. She could and probably should have been working on her homework instead, but her artwork felt more important, and more capable of keeping her attention; schoolwork probably would have just put her to sleep.

This one was of the hallway from her dream, a seemingly endless corridor fading into shadow, severed limbs hanging from the ceiling the whole way down. Her eyes kept drooping as she worked. Her head just about fell off of her hand like a lead weight. She straightened her back, shaking her head, then brushed her bangs out of her eyes with her fingernails, but when she touched her pencil back to her paper, she paused; first she found that her pencil was suddenly missing, gone from sight, then she saw that there was something on her drawing not there before. A person, or more the shape of a person, standing at the end of the corridor, their body a solid black silhouette, their arms outstretched and their clawed hands against the walls.

When her eyes turned up, what she saw made her choke on a gasp. All of the other students that were sitting or standing about just a second ago were now hanging from the ceiling by lengths of rope tied around their necks. Each of them had their eyes and mouths covered by black tape wrapped around their heads. She tried to get up out of her chair, but the table felt so tightly pressed against her that her legs were pinned into place.

Ta-ta-ta-tap

Ta-ta-ta-tap

Her attention turned to the sound of successive taps, like fingers drumming.

Ta-ta-ta-tap

Ta-ta-ta-tap

It was coming from the aisle directly at her left. She turned her head and saw a person standing down the hall. Whoever it was they were so far away that all she could see was their outline. The moment she saw it, she could recognize it from the figure that was on her drawing. She had the impulse to look back down to her drawing; sure enough, the black figure was gone from it. She looked back to see the man walking down the aisle, coming closer towards her. She could see what she thought were horns on his head, but as he neared further, she could see that it was the cap and brim of a hat. His hands were stretched out from his sides and running down the rows of shelves as he walked. She could see the fingers on his right hand bore long curved claws, edged like knives, that sliced cuts across the surfaces they ran across. Though he was still too far away for her to make out any other details, she could see the rows of teeth in his grinning mouth.

She fought all the harder to pry herself free as he drew nearer, and as she did, all of their heads spontaneously caught fire, their hair singed clean of and their flesh, and the tape covering them, bubbling and melting almost like wax off their skulls, leaving charred and cracked bone and grinning rows of teeth and white eyeballs, solid like glass, embedded in the black sockets. She screamed and threw her hands up to shield herself from the light and heat of the flames she could feel scorching her face. She then felt the man’s claws on her shoulders.

“See what fun?” he whispered, his mouth on her ear, “Hahahahahahahaaa...!”
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Indeed, what fun 😁 haha haha XD
So much of the story has been spent on character development, it was due for another nightmare scene, if only to remind us that yes Freddy is still about.
What I really enjoy about this chapter is the couple of little homages I was able to fit in there. There is a couple obvious ones, but there's one that's more subliminal; the hardcore Nancy fans hopefully should be able to find it, lol 😉
Plus I really needed to put another dream scene before the next one comes up because the next nightmare scene is going to be a serious turning point for this story.
Just you wait 😉 until then, enjoy this little treat lol
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My Nightmare trilogy is an awesome series, but with a horror story that focuses on the dream world and the laws of reality being bended, words can only do so much to adequetly paint the right picture in the readers' minds. So, I'm planning, hoping, DREAMING, of having them made into a graphic novel series. I'll see about doing the artwork myself, but I would much rather have an artist with some REAL talent bring this epic horror tale to life, so I would like to collaborate with someone else to put the whole thing together (someone willing to do it FOR FREE XP); i do the words, they do the images. Hell, that's how 99% of graphic novels/comics get made anyway.
But, one thing at a time. I wanna have the whole trilogy written and plotted out first.

In the meantime though, anybody interested in helping re-birth Freddy?
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Remember NIGHTMARE, my fan-written non-profit just-because-i-can remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street? Remember me saying how it is going to be a trilogy? Well, it's still happening, albeit rather slowly (i'm working on like five stories at once now, sooo... yeah), especially because i have to think up Part 2 and Part 3 at once; becuse its a trilogy, the whole plot of the series needs to be mapped out. The most important part for me has been coming up with the origin of the character of Freddy (MY Freddy). Needless to say, his backstory has been changed FAR beyond recognition, although he still has traces retained from the past. Freddy's history is most important because, as is the pattern of trilogies, the final chapter completes the trilogy's cyclical pattern and goes back to the beginning to reveal how ALL of this really got started. The final act will be liken to FREDDY'S DEAD with a journey through Fred Krueger's dream land and we get an up close and personal fast-forwarded view of Fred Krueger's fucked up life from his childhood into his adult life (kind of like "Inception" meets "The Cell"), learning first-hand not just how he went bad, but also where he learnedhis dream skills from, and where he got his claws from.
What I've landed on is this:
Growing up, Freddy was viciously abused by his father, and subsequently had nightmares because of it. But after seeing "Alice In Wonderland" and becoming enamored with the Cheshire Cat, Freddy began seeing a monster in his dreams bearing a close resemblance to the Ches. Cat, who would come to his rescue whenever Freddy would be attacked, especially by his dad. Freddy grew obsessed with the creature and got into dreams, learning about them and teaching himself to control them. Or specifically, the Cat. At the same time, he began adopting the Cat's personality and imitating its appearance, wearing striped shirts, wide-brimmed hats (like fedoras) because of the brims mimicking the Cat's ears, and of course THE CLAWS. For years, he built himself claws of his own using different materials, starting with crafts (paper, cardboard, Popsicle sticks, etc.), then moving on to using more... sharper materials. Over the years, as Freddy "nurtured" the Cat, he was fueling his own evilness (the Cat is an archetypal dream figure, a "projection" of Freddy's id, his rage, fears, sadism, libido; in short, the Cat is the physical embodiment of Freddy's own evil. It is what Shakespeare called "the canker" that exists inside of all humans, the beast we all have but keep caged up inside; Freddy's just happens to look like the Cheshire cat) until he grew to be a budding teenage psycho. Not only that, but "the Cat" had been helping him to learn about the dream world, how to control it, and most importantly: HOW TO ENTER OTHER PEOPLE'S DREAMS. Then blah, blah, blah, a bunch of shit happens, and Freddy was pushed past the breaking point by his dad and, in his dream world, Freddy BECAME the Cat himself, embracing his inner evil and allowing it to take him over wholly, and murdered his father through his dreams.
And so the dream demon "Freddy Krueger" was born.
And THAT is just the beginning.
If you wanna see, I've put up two drawings of it, one creepy as shit, the other kinda sweet but still creepy if you think about it.

My original design for Freddy's "monster" was originally a giant with horns and a ridged skull that imitates a fedora, but it looked too much like a hobgoblin from some fucked up cartoon (even though "cartoony" was what i was going for, since it's a creature created in the mind of a five year old). Then I came up with the thought to make the creature more feline; the claws would be most appropriate, and then i remembered a piece of Freddy trivia: Wes Craven got the idea for Freddy using claws from his pet cat; he was writing "NOES" and was thinking "what should his weapon be?", then he looked over and saw his cat clawing apart the side of the couch, he looked at the way the nails extended and arched and shredded through the fabric and thought "hmmm". Then i remembered that the Cheshire Cat has stripes, and "Alice" is all about a dream world, and NOES has already made "Alice" references (in #4, Dream Master), and the whole thing just clicked.
I can't wait 'til i get to Part 3 so i can get to writing the Cat, cuz i already know writing him is going to be even more twisted fun than writing Freddy has been, seeing as the Cat IS what makes Freddy so fucked up.
More on this as it develops.

IN OTHER NEWS...
I'm also still working on LYCAON: First Pack. I recently finished the next chapter, and I've also created a Prologue to add onto the beginning that opens the story with a proper bang. In it is described the battle that the King and his army return from; what happens is that the enemy fleet tries to sneak in on Lycaon and his army's camp while they're asleep, but Lycaon's army anticipated this. When they arrive to find the camp vacant, Lycaon's sons surround them, cloaked in wolf pelts to deceive them, and ambush them. The concept of the soldier's disguising themselves with wolf pelts sounds like something that's been done before (and if it has, PLEASE tell me where and when), but i still think it's awesome and MORE than appropriate because of its foreshadowing. Thankfully, I'm at the point where things TRULY take a turn; the next chapter will take place during the kingdom's celebration, when the King's sons... well, I'm not going to spoil itt basically, it's when they do what they did to piss of the gods. The chapter that follows after will be when they all wake up to find that they've all turned into wolves.
I've also been working a little on VIOLENT DELIGHTS here and there. It sucks though because it has been written thus far as a collabortion between me and my lover, but he's gone AWOL (work reasons; i'm not going into detail). I've tried writing it myself, but it hasn't worked; it's like switching from a third-person-omniscient to first-person-selective; it can't be wrtten from just one POV (mine). I'm still working on it though.
Some BIG NEWS with VD as well! I've decided to make Violent Delights into a SERIES! Specifically, an ANTHOLOGY SERIES. Each entry will be a gay romantic horror story over flowing with violent delights; sex, murder, blood, all the cookies. The series will cover basically all classic horror tropes (though of course, being written by me, it'll have my own twist on things to make them more original); psycho killers (like in #1), ghosts, demons, zombies, vampires, anything and EVERYTHING i can think to use. This should be a great exercise of my creativity to be able to use such a wide pallet.

...Anyways, that's all.
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'Nightmare', my remake of Nightmare On Elm Street, is now available as an ebook, all wrapped up in a single downloadable document, which is available FOR FREE! :D
This is also the "final cut" version with all the final editing, revisions, and omissions completed, so it'll be different than the edition already up on this site.

Download or read it here: www.smashwords.com/books/view/…

Also, I'm currently working on a werewolf story, an origin story that tells how the race was created. It is an adaptation of the Greek myth of King Lycaon, which was the very FIRST werewolf story in recorded history (of the obvious source of the term "lycanthrope").
In this story, the king and his sons return home from another victorious battle. After celebrating that night, they commit an act that angers the gods so greatly that they are marked with a curse that will last through their bloodline forever.
It will be written as a short/novella, and i've had my nose to the grindstone writing this so it should not take long for it to be up.
But so y'all know, i'll be selling it as an ebook, so it won't be up on here. I'll post excerpts of it so y'all will have at least that, but that's about it. Hey, this is how i make my bread =P
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I have now begun officially publishing my stories as eBooks! :D
Now i'll be able to make a few bucks off the stuff I write (which is good cuz i am unfortunately otherwise unemployed FMFL).

My stories are on Smashwords. com -----> www.smashwords.com/profile/vie…
 At the moment I've only got a few up for sale, each story $1.25 a pop, but I'll be posting more ;) =)
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