Horror Shorts

I started writing horror stories as soon as I could speak. Not so much as write, but tell, and tell I did. My father and mother scribbled down my words on napkins, paper towels, sticky notes, and notebooks that were scattered about the house. 

It was my first love.

As I grew up, watching movies and television shows I probably shouldn’t have been watching as a prepubescent teen, my love for the genre grew. 

When I was little, starting in elementary school, I would be writing page after page of story, novel, story, novel, whenever the teacher was talking, or whenever I had a moment to practice my craft. It was like I was possessed by the same ghosts I was writing about. Nothing could stop me from writing, and nothing could stop me from using my stories to deal with my ghosts.

When I was little, I was the type of kid that was both terrified of the dark, and terrified of the monsters in my closet. There were no monsters in my closet, just metaphorical ones, but it was those beings that didn’t exist that pressured me into writing what scared me the most, and I did.

I did because, when I was a kid, that was all I really had: word documents filled with stories, and notebooks filled with stories scribbled out in pen.

Friends were few and far between.

Friends who seemed true ended up being just as bad as the bullies, if not worse.

I don’t know what came first, being picked on for what I looked like, or being beaten up because I was the ‘horror freak’, but I made the most out of it by making the most out of a genre.

My stories evolved as my belief systems evolved, turning each story and morphing each story into what it was or what it became because of who my life was evolving me into. What I wrote used to reflect what was going on with me at the time, as if I was using it to figure out what was wrong and how to fix it.

Now, that’s what poetry is for.

And, because that became what poetry for, my horror stories turned into a way to discuss topics that are too taboo to talk about. I write horror to open discussions about what we are either too afraid to talk about, learn not to talk about, or don’t care enough to talk about. Each tale is crafted to try to get you to think. I will never try to force someone to believe what I do. What we each believe is what makes us human. It is, however, my job as an artist to open up discussions and make us think. As long as we learn to think, we can then decide what to think.

As a writer, that’s my favorite part of doing what I do.

We are so conditioned as humans to not talk about necessary topics that we don’t know how to approach them. That’s what a story is for.

And, as I attack these topics with horror, I will bring you along for the ride.