Post by Ravyn Crescent on May 28, 2008 16:46:16 GMT -5
Midici contacted me asking for a 750-1,000 word short story after having reviewed Predator Turned Prey’s website!
Super cool, hu? Only problem… I did not have any stories that short…
I began the day, after waking up and seeing the e–mail, by writing.
An idea came to mind. Or rather, a sentence.
Cain walked through the forest.
Okay… is he quiet? Loud? Cain began his existence in my story angrily stomping through the forest in loud boots. Why? I didn’t know. I figured maybe he got picked on at school and was angry about it.
Then I got the idea of a romance. Perhaps a counter-part to Cain, someone who walked light?
Then… maybe Cain was quiet? Yes! I likes that, but loved the bit about the loud steps… how could I use those? Aha! Someone must be following him! Yes! They shall be loud!
Cain was quiet, okay… quiet anger? Hmm… noo, he must be quiet for a reason.
That opened another path, maybe Cain wasn’t human? Cain turned into a vampire rather fast, and turned away from being a vampire even quicker.
So that opened a new question… Who was Cain?
The idea of a romance died swiftly as I realized how short the word count actually was.
Thus I worked with a thought I’ve had for a long, long while…
My Daddy… had his, mm, rough patches? Mom’s friend Pepita hated him when my siblings and I were growing up.
She often ‘joked’ by calling us Satan’s Children…
Demon Seed, Devil’s Kid, Hades Offspring. (Pepita was wicked at times)
So many names…
She said I was the daughter of darkness…
I was demon spawn?
Then I got to thinking… what if it was true for someone? What if they really were what I’d been accused of being?
How could it be true? That was another question; I’d answered it a while ago when I was more involved in my own religion and their battles.
In a satanic legend (actually in SEVERAL satanic legends) there is a child born from a human mother and a demon father. Many satanic cults try to get this to become a reality.
So what if it happened?
That’s how the story got its birth; from past thoughts and research that made me shudder.
However, I’d already decided Cain wasn’t evil… Why wasn’t he evil? All the odds were stacked against him being good; he had such a small chance! So… how did he become good? Why was he being hunted?
Hence, Mercedes. She saves the day!
The rest of the story is in the story ^_^
This will not be the version published by Midici, that version will be much, much shorter… This one is extended! I had to slaughter a lot of the story to make it short enough… so I countered that by extending a version of it The copyright remains with me, so I was allowed to put the story up for public view! If you see this story posted by anyone else, it's stolen. I have the copyright date so anyone trying to repost this as their own is rather foolish, but if you come across it, do let me know!
I do hope people will comment on it. I’d love to get Cain and Mercedes in fanart, but it is a small, quick little story so if it gets little exposure it doesn’t bother me much. I’m still proud of it ^_^
Super cool, hu? Only problem… I did not have any stories that short…
I began the day, after waking up and seeing the e–mail, by writing.
An idea came to mind. Or rather, a sentence.
Cain walked through the forest.
Okay… is he quiet? Loud? Cain began his existence in my story angrily stomping through the forest in loud boots. Why? I didn’t know. I figured maybe he got picked on at school and was angry about it.
Then I got the idea of a romance. Perhaps a counter-part to Cain, someone who walked light?
Then… maybe Cain was quiet? Yes! I likes that, but loved the bit about the loud steps… how could I use those? Aha! Someone must be following him! Yes! They shall be loud!
Cain was quiet, okay… quiet anger? Hmm… noo, he must be quiet for a reason.
That opened another path, maybe Cain wasn’t human? Cain turned into a vampire rather fast, and turned away from being a vampire even quicker.
So that opened a new question… Who was Cain?
The idea of a romance died swiftly as I realized how short the word count actually was.
Thus I worked with a thought I’ve had for a long, long while…
My Daddy… had his, mm, rough patches? Mom’s friend Pepita hated him when my siblings and I were growing up.
She often ‘joked’ by calling us Satan’s Children…
Demon Seed, Devil’s Kid, Hades Offspring. (Pepita was wicked at times)
So many names…
She said I was the daughter of darkness…
I was demon spawn?
Then I got to thinking… what if it was true for someone? What if they really were what I’d been accused of being?
How could it be true? That was another question; I’d answered it a while ago when I was more involved in my own religion and their battles.
In a satanic legend (actually in SEVERAL satanic legends) there is a child born from a human mother and a demon father. Many satanic cults try to get this to become a reality.
So what if it happened?
That’s how the story got its birth; from past thoughts and research that made me shudder.
However, I’d already decided Cain wasn’t evil… Why wasn’t he evil? All the odds were stacked against him being good; he had such a small chance! So… how did he become good? Why was he being hunted?
Hence, Mercedes. She saves the day!
The rest of the story is in the story ^_^
This will not be the version published by Midici, that version will be much, much shorter… This one is extended! I had to slaughter a lot of the story to make it short enough… so I countered that by extending a version of it The copyright remains with me, so I was allowed to put the story up for public view! If you see this story posted by anyone else, it's stolen. I have the copyright date so anyone trying to repost this as their own is rather foolish, but if you come across it, do let me know!
I do hope people will comment on it. I’d love to get Cain and Mercedes in fanart, but it is a small, quick little story so if it gets little exposure it doesn’t bother me much. I’m still proud of it ^_^