Still Halloween, yays!

[cleolinda]

For some reason, a second story came to me today. It's a shade longer than the other one, so: here you go. Now that I'm back upstairs for the evening (and I spent an hour or so this afternoon practicing), I'm going to record both stories later, but it'll have to be after our few treaters have trickled away, or else we'll have doorbells on the audio

Comments

[cleolinda]

Hee, thanks. It's interesting--I looked back over it, and I think the voice suddenly started up around the Edna Mayhew line (unlike longer things, I actually tend to write short-shorts beginning to end, in that order). I don't know that I actually started out with it in mind at all.

[golden_d]

Ooh, I really like this one :) Not that I didn't like the other, but there's a mystery to this one that the other doesn't have (mainly because what the woman found in her house - if I'm right - occurred to me pretty early on in the story). But also, the first one doesn't have lines like:

He claimed that the thing he saw ran away on four legs, but that it was, in fact, Goddamn Huge.

Happy Halloween!

[cleolinda]

Hee, yeah. I think this one has more humor in it. (Thanks!)

[adaorardor]

Where the first one filled me with a pretty pleasant suspense, this one made me actually jolt a little when the thing showed up. *grin* Actually, it kind of makes me want to draw it.

Thank you for posting these, they're great!

[cleolinda]

Aww, you're welcome!

[londonsparrow]

I really liked both stories, though I think the first one will stick in my memory more. Your journal is always so good around Halloween. (I've been reading faithfully since 2004 after the Troy in 15m! Under different lj names, though.)
As for voice recording, was the last time you did that when you went on that trip and it was very, very hot? And you finally understood Blanche from A Streetcar Named Desire, right? How I remember this, I don't know.

[cleolinda]

Hee, I did. I think that was actually the first and only time(s) I did voice posts, the posts on that trip.

[demonqueen666]

I really like the "voice" you wrote this in. Very rustic and gruff and matter-of-fact. It sort of reminds me of Cherie Priest, if you've read any of her stuff.

[cleolinda]

Thanks! Cherie Priest sounds vaguely familiar, but I haven't read any of her work--anything in particular you'd recommend?

[demonqueen666]

You may or may not have heard of her because she's also fairly popular here on the LJ as cmpriest (I believe she may also have a blog).

In any case, in the past few years she's published a trilogy of Southern gothic horror novels: Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers. I've read the first two, and the third is totally going on the Xmas list, since I am currently suffering from a dreaded affliction of the broke.
In brief, it's about a young lady named Eden in the south that sees ghosts. In un-brief, it's...a lot more complicated than that. Family curses, ancient legacies, voodun, the Civil War, Indian burial grounds, and haunted hospitals. The second one isn't *quite* as good as the first, but that may be because the first blew me out of the water so completely.

She also has a book out called Dreadful Skin, which I also haven't been able to read yet but really, really want to. It's about a nun with a gun hunting a werewolf on a riverboat. No, really.

[deepfishy]

Southern Gothic werewolf story with a nun? I am *there*. Thank you for pointing her out!