Dead Kid
Click to viewI was on a plane listening to my Ipod on shuffle. The song Olio by the Rapture (the 7 inch version, not the crappy album version) came on and it immediately made me think of the story I wrote when I was in 6th grade.
Bruce Coville was my favorite author as a kid. He had a series of anthology books called "Bruce Coville's Book of ________". There was a book of Monsters and book on Aliens. In the back of Book of Monsters you could submit a story for the up and coming Book of Nightmares. I had this idea of a kid who kept waking up after being murdered by some sort of monster and the last time it would be ambiguous to whether it was real or not. Probably something that has been done before but I've yet to see. I scribbled it up with a letter and mailed it off.
Obviously it didn't get into the book. I never actually found out which young writer did make the cut. I don't even think I got around to reading the book.