Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them.
H Trope: Back to
school!
Current Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepers_Creepers_2
Asmunder Helguson
stopped at the edge of the school ground.
Rynhildur Eggertsdóttir shoved him, “Oh, come on, you big baby.”
Asmunder swallowed hard and said, “Maybe I
shouldn’t have watched those last five movies of the 30 Scariest School Movies
of all time.”
She shouldered him, laughed, and said, “You
think? Maybe you should listen to your best friend sometimes.”
Asmunder glanced at her. She looked away. He
whispered, “I would if that Greenland shark hadn’t eaten him.” Rynhildur
growled and shoved past him, ramming him into a garbage can. He called, “Ryn!
Wait! I wasn’t thinking...”
She turned as she walked, saying, “Try
thinking before you say mean things, Ass.” She kept turning and disappeared
into Reykjavik High School. He cussed in one of the obscure languages – Basque –
and took a step toward the school. He stopped and stepped back. People who didn’t
know him couldn’t figure out why he refused to go into the school. Even the
people who knew him accepted that he couldn’t go in, but still didn’t
understand why he wouldn’t do it. “Can’t do it,” he muttered. He looked up at
the third floor, the wide dormer with three windows. Even as he looked, he saw
a faint, ghostly shadow pass into the school.
He was certain the Greenland shark that had
murdered his best friend haunted his school. That it waited for him.
That it might be waiting for something
else. Suddenly, high overhead, the head of the shark came out of the building,
paused, looked down at him, then turned and re-entered the school,
disappearing. Asmunder staggered backward, certain that the creature – the ghost
– had truly horrible things in store for the students. He was quite sure there
was one, special student the shark would be visiting...
Names: ♀ Iceland; ♂ Iceland
Resources: http://horror.about.com/od/horrortoppicklists/tp/30-Great-Back-to-School-Horror-Movies.htm
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