This epistolary horror story was inspired upon cosmic and psychological horror, with some influences from David Lynch’s storytelling in Twin Peaks. It can be read both as a linear, literary narrative, and as a collection of item descriptions the player finds for a quest.
Connected as a sort of prequel to Heroes and Lambs, my horror screenwriting sample, these letters are all that have been found of Helen Sully, young and sweet architect who had moved to New York from the fictional Hushtown, and disappeared in the nearby forest near in 1967.
Written between February and April 2024.
The Artist gives up their soul to the Trader in order to create a living painting and becoming a legend among their peers; but a terrible lesson awaits their last moment. Highly symbolic and completed in two hours, this story evokes the trope of an artist making a pact with the Devil: the storytelling is brief for effectiveness and essentiality, an exercise in style that resulted in quite an effective, climactic narrative.
Written on the 5th of April, 2024.
In this flash story, the images rush one against the other, in a hectic, bloody and tense, “flashy” telling. The personalities and emotions come from fragmented actions of the characters (a total of four in just a few lines).
Written on the 12th of March, 2025.
An old woman's memories fade and come back like tides as she attempts to read the world around her, inhabited by objects and people she barely recognizes.
Written in January 2025.