E-book challenge
I don't know how many of you have heard about PBW's E-book Challenge. For those of you who haven't, Paperback Writer (who writes the Darkyn novels as Lynn Viehl and the StarDoc novels as S.L. Viehl) challenged writers, both published and unpublished, to post a novel, novella, or short story as a free download by or on October 31st. As it happened, I had a story just waiting for me to do something with it, so I did a rewrite of it and posted it.
The story is called "To See You With," and it's a horror story, just in time for Halloween. It can be found here. The file is in PDF format; to download it, right-click the link and select "Save Target As" (or your browser's equivalent). To open the file in your browser window, just click the link normally. If you can't open the file, you can find the necessary program here. (And if you still can't get it working, let me know, and I'll see about posting the story directly to a webpage.)
I encourage you to check out both my story, and the other stories people have posted for the challenge. And once you've read "To See You With," tell me what you think!
The story is called "To See You With," and it's a horror story, just in time for Halloween. It can be found here. The file is in PDF format; to download it, right-click the link and select "Save Target As" (or your browser's equivalent). To open the file in your browser window, just click the link normally. If you can't open the file, you can find the necessary program here. (And if you still can't get it working, let me know, and I'll see about posting the story directly to a webpage.)
I encourage you to check out both my story, and the other stories people have posted for the challenge. And once you've read "To See You With," tell me what you think!
posted by Zoe @ 11:17 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:50 PM,
Anonymous said…
So. Now I'm imagining the taste and texture of an eyeball, and feeling slightly nauseated because of it. I've read this before, many months ago, so there wasn't the same slow dawning horror as there was the first time around. I miss that, but I still enjoyed it a lot the second time. What stood out in the absence of dawning horror were the characters (I think I was more struck by the mother this time around), the descriptions (especially toward the end, in the department store), and a couple of images, particularly the eyeless father in his coffin. And, of course, the descriptions made me a little queasy. As for constructive criticism -- it's hard to think of stuff, but on the subject of the descriptions, some of the word rhythms were a bit jarring, but that's largely personal preference. There was repetition in one of the first few sentences, of "the wall," which took me out of the story a bit, mainly because it happened so early on. Similarly, there were a couple places where transitions between scenes felt a little abrupt, or scenes could just have been a little longer. This is about the part where I stop making sense, though, so the review must end. Happy Halloween.
-Genevieve
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