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lwm3398

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I have had this idea tumbling in my head for a while now, and I feel like if I put it anywhere, it should be here. I would just write it for a class or just show it to friends, but I have to write this somewhere where I'll get feedback that will help me write better, not just "Uh... It's okay... Really... uh... good...".

Here goes absolutely nothing.

Chapter 1.

A crumpled heap of what looks like a person is on the ground. The room is dark, and with every raspy breath he sucked in, it feels like a gallon of water. The room is humid, musty, and dirty. He sweats and breathes, lying face-down on the ground.

The metal door creaks open slightly, allowing a slight light to come in. The room has one way mirrors all around, a soft, white floor, like in an asylum. The door fully opens, and brings in a flood of bright sunlight, as if it was the door outside.

The body shoots upright, kneeling. A shock of pain goes through his head and back. He opens his bloodshot eyes only to have them burned by the bright light. "What's happened?", he thinks, as he lies back down to be met with more bolts of fiery aches and pains.

A woman walks in, lab-coat and orange goggles. She is bleach blond, with a pixie cut. Her eyes are blue-green, with long, curled eyelashes. She has a small, pointed nose and thin, dry lips. "Sir, if you'd like to wake up now." She says, in sickly sweet tones. The young man kneels up again, keeping his eyes closed. "Oooooh... My... My head..."

"It will be over soon, Mr. Daniels.", says the woman, again with noticeably faked niceness.

The boy rubs his forehead, then his eyes. He opens them up to see a blurry white room with a face sticking out.

"Hello?" he says, his eyes focusing and seeing the woman.
"How hungover am I?" he says.
"A side effect of the drug, no doubt. You are just here for some tests, Mr.Daniels. It will be over in less than a few seconds." says the woman, angrily but composed.
"Must be high, too." he says, disjointedly.
"Sir, will you allow the tests?" she says, with more than a hint more anger than before.
"I'll allow anything." he says.
"Good, good..." she says, drawing a small metal stick with two small wires sticking out.
"Just keep your eyes open." she says, moving the stick closer to his face. Blue sparks flew off the ends of the wires.
"Whoa, whoa, the Hell is that?!"
"It won't hurt a bit." she says, jabbing stick closer to his face. The wires flew out and stuck in his eyes, pushing shocks through his eyes, to his brain, down the spine, and everywhere. The shock would have killed a normal person. But a normal person wouldn't get this shock. Not at all.
 

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It's intriguing so far, I'll give you that.

I have a few questions. Have you ever tried writing fiction before, or is this a first attempt? Do you have a whole story/narrative in mind or is this just a scene that's worked itself in to your head?

It could use a little polish, which is understandable if this is a first attempt. A couple of the sentences seem a little rough, such as "like in an asylum" and "door to the outside", just seem a bit disjointed.

On the whole though, it seems quite promising, I would definitely read on.
 

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It's well written, and left me wanting to know where it's going.

I've never seen that narration style used in telling a story before (not to say that it doesn't work). It gives the feeling that the narrator isn't telling the story, but creating it, which for me is a bit disconnecting.
 

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silver scribbler said:
It's intriguing so far, I'll give you that.

I have a few questions. Have you ever tried writing fiction before, or is this a first attempt? Do you have a whole story/narrative in mind or is this just a scene that's worked itself in to your head?

It could use a little polish, which is understandable if this is a first attempt. A couple of the sentences seem a little rough, such as "like in an asylum" and "door to the outside", just seem a bit disjointed.

On the whole though, it seems quite promising, I would definitely read on.
Thanks. This is my first Action/Adventure story, but I've done comedy before.

Those two sentences mentioned were rocky, but with the outside one I couldn't think of another way to put it.

I do have an okay idea of the plot, but this scene was the one I concentrated on in my head. I got the beginning worked out alright, as well as whats going to happen to the 20-something in room. Just no name, I'm shit with coming up with names for characters.
 

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TMAN10112 said:
It's well written, and left me wanting to know where it's going.

I've never seen that narration style used in telling a story before (not to say that it doesn't work). It gives the feeling that the narrator isn't telling the story, but creating it, which for is a bit disconnecting.
It's as if the narrator's watching it, then telling it to a blind person. Kind of in a 1 and half person perspective, if that makes sense.
 

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Yeah the comedy showed in the dialogue, which was well done.

"... as if it was the door leading outside." maybe? Just a suggestion, flows slightly better.

That's fair enough, some authors have the ending in mind from the beginning, and some just let the characters and story lead them towards an end. I know what you mean, coming up with names is really hard without sounding egotistic by using your own, or unoriginal by using boring ones, or pretentious by using overly strange ones.

Keep me updated on how this goes, I'm interested as to what's going on. And I'll be glad to help if you need any.
 

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It's intriguing that he consents to "anything" when he's so obviously in pain. I like that... The ending is definitely intriguing and has a very dark tone.

You could vary your sentence structure a little more ? after a while, "The [adjective] [subject] [verbs] [preposition] the [noun]" gets a little tiring.

You have some good "feeling" imagery in the breaths like "a gallon of water" and the description of the shocks moving through his body. One thing that might be interesting to try is to assign your narrator to a specific character, or to switch it up now and then. By that I mean, write what the character would see, feel, smell, otherwise experience. You have lots of descriptions of what things look like in the beginning, but your guy is lying face-down on the ground in the dark. What does that feel like, having your head in the "soft, white floor"?
 

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lwm3398 said:
TMAN10112 said:
It's well written, and left me wanting to know where it's going.

I've never seen that narration style used in telling a story before (not to say that it doesn't work). It gives the feeling that the narrator isn't telling the story, but creating it, which for is a bit disconnecting.
It's as if the narrator's watching it, then telling it to a blind person. Kind of in a 1 and half person perspective, if that makes sense.
I'm liking it especially because of this perspective. It's like you're writing the script for a comic book or something. Keep it up, I want to see where this goes!
 

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It was good. The start was intriguing and makes me want to read more. Alot of the description was interesting while others need a little bit more work. I'm really very good with writing reviews but it was very good and I liked it.
 

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Florion said:
It's intriguing that he consents to "anything" when he's so obviously in pain. I like that...
I was gonna have him say "Baby" at the end, but I decided to chop it off.
 

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Give me five minutes, I must shower.

Okay, showered, comfortable, in my PJ's, Here comes

Chapter 2

The mirrors crashed. Shards of glass rained down as hard and lethal as sharpened hail. A figure in a cloak black as midnight, and a hood that let no one in to see his face, jumped through the glass headfirst.
"That's what you get for having shitty security!" He said, shielding his head from the glass and the impact. He rolled up to his feet, with the cat-like fluid movements of a trained soldier.

The young man writhed with pain, as a shock like a tazer, not to the spine, but straight to the brain, surged through his body, ripping his life out through his eyes.

The woman smiled a sick and twisted smile, as three green triangles, two on the bottom, one on top, suddenly appeared on her forehead. Her eyes grew red, her hair tangled, as she enjoyed robbing this little annoying human of his life.

The figure who burst through stabbed her with a knife he seemed to pull out of nowhere. Fire quickly burned up the cut, as she cried out in a demonic voice,
"Bastard! How dare you interrupt the ritual!"
"Hah!" Laughed the cloaked man, with a clear Australian accent.
"I'd say 'Do it to me instead', but I'd just as soon whoop your ass into the ground!"
He whipped out a pistol, again, from nowhere, and shot the wired rod in half.

The young man stopped writhing, and the wires fell from his eyes. One eye was a clear, crisp, ocean blue, but the other was a sickly gray-white. He lay limply on the ground, as though so drunk he was out of his body. His brown hair settled down as the electricity slowly lowered in intensity.

The cloaked figure turned the pistol on the woman, and muttered a short string of words. It went something like, "May thee be damned to the eternal suffering of a soul rejected by light, Amen."

The woman writhed as the words escaped his mouth. He pointed the barrel of the pistol squarely in the center of the triangles.

"DAAAAMN YOOOU!" She screamed, loud and shrilly enough to have broken the already destroyed glass.

"Tell the devil I said hello, *****." He said, before putting a bullet in her brain.

He picked up the wet noodle-like body that was his new-found comrade, and jumped out the broken glass wall.
 

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lwm3398 said:
Florion said:
It's intriguing that he consents to "anything" when he's so obviously in pain. I like that...
I was gonna have him say "Baby" at the end, but I decided to chop it off.
... is this going in an S&M direction? xDDD
 

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Florion said:
lwm3398 said:
Florion said:
It's intriguing that he consents to "anything" when he's so obviously in pain. I like that...
I was gonna have him say "Baby" at the end, but I decided to chop it off.
... is this going in an S&M direction? xDDD
No, it's just that he's twenty and she's attractive. I hoped from the "White lab coat" "bleach blond pixie haircut" and "Long eyelashes" That you would get the gist that she was not ugly.

But just wait.
 

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silver scribbler said:
Yeah the comedy showed in the dialogue, which was well done.


That's fair enough, some authors have the ending in mind from the beginning
Two things: The comedy story was more of a fantasy-comedy, taking place in a medieval world where a younger kid who wanted so badly to go on adventures, and his mentor and friends, go through it, but it was all sewn together with un-serious, random, stupid pun comedy. Not as slightly more adult as I'm getting here.

And I have no idea about the end, only that it's a kind of a Survival Horror-Action/Adventure book hybrid. It won't be Stephen King scary, but I hope to get up to at least a Firday The 13th scary. The kind of startles, can't stop watching but really want to kind of scares.

But I'm not even that good yet. We'll just have to see, I guess.
 

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I'll maybe write another chapter later tomorrow, maybe around 3 or 4. I'm packing it in for tonight.
 

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The second chapter (although they are a little short for chapters!) reads much better, although still a little rough around the edges. The imagery of the falling glass is pretty evocative.

Going for a bit of an Indiana Jones crossed with a priest feel with our heroic rescuer? The bad-assedness is a little over the top, but he seems like an entertaining character.

Again, looking forward to the next section.
 

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It seems perfect for the back of you book, like the thing that gives hints into the acuall story. THhe ending kept me wanting more, which is what the back of a book is supposed to do. when this book is finished I so call the first copy.
 

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I'm only gonna name this chapter, as this will make the greatest amount of sense.
Plus, as I said, I'm shit with names other than obvious ones, and this is extremely obvious.

Chapter 3: Explanations.

When he awoke he couldn't move, he felt as though his hands were both blocks of lead and chained to the ground. The ground. No longer the marshmallow soft of a psychopath's room, but the ground of a meadow. A few different colored flowers littered the ground like candy wrappers in a children's park. He saw a blurry black figure with his hands in his lap out of the corner of his left eye.

"He awakes."

Said a forgotten, yet back-of the head familiar voice.

He tried to move his lips, but they felt even heavier than his arms. A cloud moved in the sky, allowing a burst of light to burst down.

There was a cutting pain in his eye from the light, which quickly shut. He kept the other one open, and found the world to be a lot less blurry now. The black figure looked him in his open eye, his right eye.

"You're blind in the other."
"I'll say, I just closed it and it's like coming out of water."
"No. Blind. To the truth."
"What?"
He said, after wrenching his lips apart and rasping with the last of his breath. He breathed deeply through his nose and tried to get some oxygen in his empty lungs.
"The truth. About the world. We aren't alone, as the sentient species. Most are even smarter than us because they know how to hide. But we can see them, in the shadows, in light, we see the world for what it is. A demonic breeding ground."
"So, what, vampires, red winged people with scales, the devil?"
"The devil? Doesn't exist, I'm afraid.
"What leads you to believe that?"
"I'm an atheist."
"An atheist..."
He nodded.
"Who fights demons and knows that Satan exists..."
"He doesn't, but please go on."
"So what do you think they're worshipping?"
"Evil. Just evil. Bad deeds, anything dark that lurks in the shadows. The demons, blood drinkers, cursed whatevers, they work towards making these more powerful."
"What are you... Nevermind, just tell me what goes on here on Earth, and what's going on with me."
"Well, to see what we see, we have a power. Whether it be genetic, or like albinos, recessive and one-in-a-million, we don't know. But we have a power. It goes deep inside us, and comes from the eyes. They sucked it clean from your left eye. That's why it's grey."
Said the man in the cloak, gesturing to the young man on the ground's eye.
"Grey?" he asked.
"Yes, grey. Anyways, these insane cultists are sucking out our eyes. They want it, the power. They suck it out of our eyes, taking the layer of what gives us the sight. They can remake it, pray to their "One True God" to make it what they want. They want to use it to summon they're master. Your Satan. Their sign is those three triangles, the sign of the Father, the son, and the Devil, the triangle on top. The sign of all the demons we see on a daily basis. We kill them in special ways. Wooden stocks specially made out of crosses, knifes and bullets melted from big-ass blessed-by-the-Pope crosses, knew a guy who sharpened a cross, most effective weapon I've ever seen. We fight with Christian things to kill demonic monsters. We do what we must, to fight what we must."
He looked up to the sky, misty eyed. The man in the cloak began again.
"The world is so beautiful... But it's us in the background doing the dirty work that do it. We reap rewards for people we don't know, as we reapers must."
He stayed silent for a moment, before resuming with,
"You probably have two hundred questions, even more after I've appeared."
"...Think you just underestimated a bit."
"Probably."
A silence as heavy as a block of lead slipped between them.
"Hey, where's my manners, I'm Jaden."
"Mike."
Replied the cloaked figure.
"Can you move?", asked Mike.
"Do my lips and eyelids count?"
 

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Supreme Unleaded said:
It seems perfect for the back of you book, like the thing that gives hints into the acuall story. THhe ending kept me wanting more, which is what the back of a book is supposed to do. when this book is finished I so call the first copy.
The blurb. No shitting, that's what it's called.