Leaping out of what he thought was his bed; he tripped over the edge of his coffin, landing face first on the funeral parlour floor. “Fuck!” he shouted. He probably would have broken is neck if he wasn’t already dead.
—From one of the favourite concepts I began to develop at university this year. Not being handed in for any sort of submission. YET.
The Five Watches of the Five Corpses - Part One
I must resist the urge to ramble on and on about this short story. Essentially, it’s a detective story in two-parts, the first of which appeared in a student created anthology at my university. Do try to excuse Tumblr’s weird formatting, Tumblr perhaps isn’t the best place to upload fiction. If you know a better place then hey - send me an ask or whatever and tell me where.
Here is part one:
My Creative Writing
I would post more of my amazing Creative Writing projects like I used to, but due to the plagiarism checking thing for my uni course I might get caught out stealing my own stuff should I choose to expand on anything for my assessment portfolio.
Let’s just say I’m working on a pretty tight detective comedy adventure about an American guy who is dead but can’t remember how, and an Irish American detective who was dead at one point but now is only half-dead.
I also wrote about my friend from college who used to run a mean game of Pokemon D&D, and some sort of weird modern retelling of The Gingerbread Man.
Oh, if I could only show you these glories.
10/10 A++ would write again
The Golden Comet - Entry 6
Toiled longer over this section than the last few. It’s all beginning to come together. Also, starting to edit earlier in my head, like how I can make things simpler and more to the point. Ah well, a rough draft is a rough draft. The last paragraph I particularly like, but maybe it’s just me.
