Twilight Tales by Crissy Moss

Author:Crissy Moss [Moss, Crissy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Undead, scarecrow, obsession
Published: 2012-05-03T22:00:00+00:00

Author’s Note

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About seven years ago I wrote “Scarecrow.” I actually got the idea one day as I was sitting in my son’s kindergarten class. A picture of a scarecrow loomed above me, and suddenly the thought crossed my mind: what if?

I wrote the first draft in about thirty minutes. It was the first time I’d ever written something quite so quickly, but I already knew it was the best thing I’d ever written. It took a few days to polish it up and then I send it out. It was accepted. Twice. And published. Twice. The first and only of my short stories to be traditionally published. Oh, I published articles and essays, a few how-to’s and some poetry before and after “Scarecrow”, but that first publication of an actual story felt so good. I’d been dreaming of it since I was a kid writing my first “What do I want to be when I grow up” essay. It felt like I’d arrived.

So, naturally, when I started putting together my first e-Book, “Scarecrow” had to be the first story I published.

In between that first publication of “Scarecrow” and this one I had a very interesting (and not in a good way) life. A few struggles, a few educational moments, a couple of moves and a huge case of writers block. So I didn’t have any new publications between “Scarecrow” and now, just a few incomplete works, and some ideas.

I did, however, have a pile of back stories. Along with “Scarecrow” I picked out two slightly creepy tales, dusted them off, polished them up, and put them in this, my first e-Book.

Of the three short stories in this volume, “Smother and Bake” is the oldest. I wrote it in high school and turned it in for my senior English project. My teacher gave me an A for it, and put a comment on the corner saying it was a “creepy story”. That’s exactly what I was going for so I took it as a compliment. It did require a complete rewrite, being as old as it was. A writer always hopes to improve their craft, after all, and I have learned a lot since writing it back in high school.

“Necropolis” was written about the same time as “Scarecrow”. I submitted it to a couple of magazines but never really got anyone who was interested before my personal life left little time for my writing life. When I pulled it out and did another edit I realized that it needed a lot of work. More of it was adding back story and fleshing out the characters.

You can find a full novel in the world of Necropolis on Amazon, Forgotten Ones.

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