Time to step it up for a while with my stories. During March and April they will be going up online a little quicker than they have been over the last 18 months or so. I have a lot I want to get through and once they are up then I will decide if I will slow down or keep going at my regular pace. People are still reading what I write and leaving positive comment and I am very grateful for that.
Amoungst what is coming up in March and April are 'DEXTER'S HOUSE', a story with which I got the idea for while on a recent trip to the cinema with my sister Kerrie. We had a bit of time to kill before the film was to start so we went into a nearby hotel for a coffee. I was intrigued by that hotel, it's layout and layed back atmosphere that it had me day dreaming and the basic idea for Dexter's house came about. It also leaves a possibility for more DEXTER'S HOUSE stories that I may get to write later in the year.
Now the site 'short-fiction.co.uk' is primarily more of a site for adult and erotic stories, more so than of anything for other genres but of course does include many other genres. I don't write nor am I interested in reading erotica but I do have a slightly more adult tale coming up. It is called TEASE. I have had the idea for this for quite some time now so I guess I may as well get it out of my system. It is neither rude nor explicit but more along the kind of games played where love or maybe even lust are invloved. Hopefully I done a decent enough job with that one.
Also coming up is a story called THE HEALER. A story based on the idea of the seventh son of seventh son, someone because of the nature of his birth has certain gifts, one of which is obviously the gift of being able to perform miracle healing. Being the eldest of 7 (not all of whom are male) also gives me added interest in writing this tale. It is another story that could lead to future parts, who knows.
Another story coming up is that of JUDY"S STORY, the story of a girl in her late teens who has a fixation on a character from a series of stories that she has been following that Judy herself becomes part of the story she has been following. Sometimes when I write I like to imagine either being in the story or having it run in my mind as if I am watching a movie, so JUDY'S STORY is something that was alway going to happen.
Now I am not an agressive or violent person so when I wrote a story called TORTURE a couple of years ago now at this stage I was a little cautious of what anyone who reads it may think of it. A few months after writing it I posted it at short-fiction.co.uk and I was very surprised by the possitive reaction it got. It was was so possitive it lead me to continue adding to it. The reaction was so possitive that even a magazine in the U.S wanted to publish it. TORTURE was also one of the most enjoyable stories for me to actually write, so it is only natural I guess for me to sit down and write another agressive and violent story. BEAST is about a monster of a young man, raised on anger and ready to destroy anything in his way on an island designed for that very purpose. BEAST is also coming soon.
Something else that has my attension is a what if story. What if you found yourself alone on a long, dark winding road, with no memory of who you are or how you got there, what would you do? DARKNESS is another story coming soon.
Along with all this, I have also mentioned before that I want to get other stories up online such as the third and fourth tales in my VAMPIRE series, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GABRIEL GRIMMEL, and DARK SHADOW are also coming soon as is more on THE BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE, another series of stories with which I would like to complete. So in the next couple of months or so, I'll be kept more than busy with what I write.
I am still not confident with my writing abilities, but what I write is being read and people are genuinely leaving me possitive comments, so as long as they are being read I will keep posting more. Thanks for reading. KARL.
