Week 13 blog 1: Writing the Short-Short Story

 It’s early dusk at the lake because the sky’s marbled with clouds and some of them are dark, heavy, tumescent as skins of flesh ready to burst.  Lightning began to dance across the sky, but thunder never boomed; the storm was too great a distance away. When lightning flashed, a single figure could be scene, a dark shadow since the light no longer shone down. The figure began to walk along the now icy shores of the lake, every so often it would look over its shoulder looking for an invisible enemy. Once it reached, the edge of the Wolf's Head Lake a flare of lightning revealed the figure to be a man of 21 years old. He looked over the water, as the waves sired and crashed against the shore.

     “Why have you come here?” The waves began to roar.

     “Too seek answers to who… what I am!” The man shouted

     “You already know who and what you are!” The thunder began to boom.

     “Face the truth Lone Wolf, and embrace your destiny.” The wind violently shouted.

     “Tell us who and what you are!”  A voice called out in the darkness.

     The man looked down, unable to answer. However, soon he looked up courage on his face. Then the storm finally reached the lake, and it released its contents down upon the earth, as he shouted,

     “I am Faolán and I am a wolf in man’s skin!” the man, Faolán, shouted.

      He then turned to face the voice, who replied,

      “Good, welcome home brother.”

      As both figures left, a flash of light revealed who the other character truly was, and he was not of this world.

Part Two:

 Okay now you can read the story. How did your story compare to the actual one in the text when you had a chance to read it?

My story was more mysterious, while this real story seemed to be more about a persons vacation.

Why did you choose this particular story?

I chose this story because I thought I would be a great mystery story that is what the first sentence let on to me. I was surprised to find that this was not the case.

 What are the elements of the short-short story you can identify? (Name at least three. How are short-short stories different from traditional short stories?

Traditional stories have more introductions and descriptions of the place. I find that short stories don’t really do that an let the reader imagine more on what’s going on.

Short stories also are shorter, meaning that a author needs to create the climax and resolve problems or what not more quickly than a traditional story author does.

A lastly, I find that most short stories draw you in more quickly than a traditional story, which draws you I but then describes what else is going on.