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eBook details
- Title: Things We Didn’t Ask For
- Author : Shannon Massey
- Release Date : January 28, 2018
- Genre: Short Stories,Books,Fiction & Literature,Horror,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
Description
A client and I were talking about how scary it is to be a woman these days. That's how this anthology started. Long story short, she bet me $20 I couldn’t publish a horror anthology by Halloween. I took the bet because why not? There were ground rules: I had to publish by Halloween, the stories had to have something to do with the theme of “Things women worry about/things that women would be terrified by,” The stories needed to fall somewhere under the umbrella of the horror genre. Other than that it was fair game.
These stories were hard for me to write, especially Emaciated. I avoid writing pieces where women are victims when I can. We face enough in real life, who wants to read/see that in our entertainment as well? I try to empower with my writing and create strong female characters instead.
One - This story started for an anthology submission. I saw the post two days before the submission closed and I couldn't write fast enough. So I went back to revisit and tweak it for this collection. It started with an acquaintance and I talking about an ex, she said, “I felt like I was playing house with a psychopath.” This story is from three POV’s. Upstairs-Mary, Downstairs-Mary, and Holly. A hashtag marks the beginning/end of each characters section.
CW: Violence against women.
Two - This was another one for an anthology submission I saw. I forgot to bookmark the submission page and could not find it again. I finished the story and tweaked it to work for this collection. It came from an image in a dream of a girl chained in an underground cavern with water rising.
CW: Pain/violence and implied pain/violence against a male and female character.
Three - This was the hardest piece to write. I have a visceral reaction to the situation the Main Character is in. It started as a writing sample. The character’s wouldn’t leave me alone, so here we are. While researching for the writing sample I was horrified by some of the terrible things people do to their children. As a mother I cannot understand how anyone could be that cruel to their child. As the daughter of two loving parents it is difficult to wrap my head around being hurt by your parents. (My parents didn't even spank us lol). I’m still working on this piece with the end goal of a standalone story and a happy ending for Sticks because she deserves one.
CW: "Sticks" is 15 and abused by her parents. Physical abuse, implied rape/sexual violence, and emotional abuse.
Four - I’m querying a novel called Welcome To The Resistance. It started as a way to work through all the feelings I had surrounding the 2016 election and turned into a novel. I set this piece in that world. I had a dream about someone stuck in an underground railroad type situation but murderous white supremacists overtook the safe house. With how intense Emaciated is I tried to keep a lighter tone with this piece.
CW: Implied violence.
Five - This was in my “extras” folder. I was going to change the lead character from a man to a woman but I left it as is. There is nothing more infuriating for a woman than having her narrative taken over by a man. There is the mindset of who wants to hear from a woman?
CW: Zombie violence. Loss of a child.
Six - I left this formatted as a screenplay and included it as a bonus piece. If you read it and want to make it contact me, we can chat. It was written as a writing sample for a single location paranormal piece.
CW: Alcoholism, ghosts, and suicide.