New Story – Indemnity
Hey, folks. Long time no see. Last semester was brutal, and I took some time off from fiction to try out non-fiction and literary journalism classes. This summer I’m interning and working on my thesis, so I thought it a good time to return to the blog.
This is a sci-fi piece I wrote in January. I wanted to see if I could write a scary story in the same way that the movie Alien has always scared the crap out of me, and I’m not sure about the result. Let me know what you guys think and if you know any good books or stories I should check out as examples of a creature feature in prose form.
Indemnity
The familiar touch of the bed sheets against Rogers’ skin comforted him. It’ll be just like going to sleep, he thought. Rogers sat on a chair in the center of his bedroom. The bed sheets were around his neck. He’d tied them to an exposed pipe on the ceiling. He planned to hang himself.
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