I’d like to welcome you to my pit of evil happenstance. This is where innocent people are lured away from the light and taken into the dark recesses of a dark dungeon. May your stay be disturbing.
Of course, no one is totally innocent. Even the most honest, hard-working of souls has something to feel guilty about. They fear procrastination or wasting the golden opportunities that arise. They fear disappointing their God, who won’t be happy if they were to miss His important signs.
Guilt is anywhere you find it.
I’m guilty.
The difference is I don’t try to hide it from myself. I’m guilty, and I’m proud. Instead of denying who I am, I explore my peculiar, death-focused obsessions every time I descend into the murkiness of my thoughts.
Y’know, this pit in which I dwell is actually part of a neurosis labyrinth. It is a quiet corner, far from the prying eyes of the do-gooders, the politically correct, and those who tch-tch at everything they see and hear in the media. I apply a few sadistic keystrokes, and suddenly, they are here with me, bound to my dungeon’s walls. Stripped of their dignity and most of their clothes, I probe their flesh with shiny, metal objects and torment their minds with vile threats. No one gets out alive. No one outside this pit hears the delicious screams that echo inside.
There’s no romance. No weddings. No everlasting love. Warm-and-fuzzy hero righteousness is completely banned. I provide no clichés. My happy-ever-after is to watch victims plead for mercy and then watch them die. This version of a HEA is a refreshing change. It’s about time the literary landscape changed, right?
Helpless victims aside, churning out dark fiction from a mind dungeon comes with the same problems other authors have to deal with. We can write about murder all we like, but we still need a good reason for someone to die and include a special kind of electricity in the text to make the reader stay on the page. And then there’s the marketing, advertising and finding our reading market. Self-publishing isn’t an easy road.
Somewhere between creating a phenomenal story and a reader’s inevitable enjoyment of it lies the editing process. It’s the single largest and most challenging part of any writing project. Watch the video below to meet me and see where the writing comes together.
Creep you later.
–Michael (Dark fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)
Love, lust, and lies collide on land and water. A temptress, a faithful wife, and a photographer haunted by shadows drift into a world of seduction, betrayal, and control.
Marriages unravel, secrets surface, and civility dissolves into primal instinct. Nothing is safe. No one is innocent.
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SEETHINGS (first in the series) is downloadable and free for a limited time, here.
“Forman’s writing style is artful, with the protagonist Mitchell’s warped thought processes masterfully exposed. The author has a powerful and vivid command of language and his word pictures are stark and disturbingly real.”
– Linda J Bettenay, author of ‘Secrets Mothers Keep’ and ‘Wishes For Starlight’.
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