Margaret MoonshadowSometimes #October/ #Fall and holidays such as #Halloween remind us of loved ones and those we have lost. I wrote this 50-word #Microfiction for my brother who was born in the month of October. When he was 22, he died in a car accident just a few days before Christmas. He would have loved being an uncle to my child and my sister's children. We need him. I think the seasonal writing of #Storytober can vary to include the personal. It isn't all about hauntings. Or is it.
Sometimes people we love are connected to #Halloween and the month of #October. Today, I'm posting a fictional micro about an aunt who didn't fit in with society. Tomorrow, I will post something even closer to home. #Storytober #microfiction #50WordFiction #Halloween #31DaysOfHalloween #Storytober
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/inktober-bananas/
As promised yesterday, a second gruesome Starbucks #50WordFiction for #Storytober. This #microfiction is inspired by a Starbucks I frequent---the drive through in particular---because of the excellent customer service. It's across from Sea World and makes especially delicious drinks for tourists. Universal is also down the street, hence the reference to #Halloween Horror Nights. It is also the setting of a WIP in which it is referred to as a "cafe." #horror #microhorror
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/inktober-awol/
The two semi-fictional Orlando Starbucks in my #Fall / #Halloween #50WordFiction are portrayed with a couple of surprising encounters---one an unexpected attack in the queue and the other, to be posted tomorrow, an unnatural abduction at the drive-thru. 🖤 There's something wrong with me, lols. 💀(Know if you go to the links, you will read a brief depiction of violence or really more like an implication of violence. Nothing specific.) #Storytober #BiteSizeFiction
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/inktober-bite/
I had a great time today in Sarah Jackson's workshop learning different ways to conceptualize ghosts. 🖤 I feel like today is my weekend. I'm behind on my ghostly and horrific writings for #Storytober. I wanted to share #50WordFiction penned in 2019, a letter written from a sister to her ghostly brother. I hope to also follow up on an inspiration from the workshop and will post the result soon. yay. 👻 #Halloween #31DaysOfHalloween #microhorror #horror
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/tread/
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/tread/
I appreciate getting support for ideas I suggested for writing flash fiction for #Storytober. An interesting point, something I noticed: While people responded positively to using ghosts and phenomenon as a reaction to grief, there was very little response to a classic theme in horror: the revenge/anger comeuppance of a culpable character via a supernatural force, ghost, unexplained incident. People may be less comfie w/anger, but I'm thinking it fuels some satisfying horror. #WritingCommunity
The grief of competing with a ghost for a loved one's affections. #microfiction #Storytober
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/inktober-ghost/
Homeless children are visited by their mother, now in ghostly form, though her messages are not always a comfort. #microhorror #Storytober
A street name for a recreational drug is used to personify the drug, making it a salvific instrument, an angel (though admittedly in trying to stay within the word constraints, I relied heavily on the image). #Storytober
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/inktober-escape/
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/inktober-escape/
A response to mourning for life in the midst of being treated for an illness, a treatment that can kill as much as the disease can, comes in the form of a spirit bringing relief and a kind of freedom/release. #microfiction #microhorror #Storytober
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/frail/
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/frail/
