Welcome to Six-Sentence Sunday!
This week I present you with another excerpt from my upcoming horror novella SOMETHING BLACK…
This scene is from an in media res segment near the beginning of the novel, when an unnamed character reflects on what is left of the world now that the shadows have invaded.
I can’t remember life before the shadows came.
The notion of that old life hung there, just out of reach: a job, a wife, a little girl and friends and TV and basketball and eating out, but the actual memories were blocked off, like they’d been crumpled up and thrown away.
If I live long enough, I might completely forget there even was a time before.
He didn’t realize he was crying until the tears fell onto his hands.
The howls burst out of the burgeoning night. The blood sun finished its descent, leaving only a faint, dripping haze on the horizon.
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Ooooh, nice six, Steven! Good tension–pitting the normalcy of his memories with the horror of the present.
Thanks, Teresa!
There’s a lot of sadness here. It’s well done
It’s always painful to have what’s familiar and loved ripped away. This poor guy has it happen to him over…and over…and over again.
A wonderfully painted moment of painful reflection, stripped away by the descending, ever present madness of the Black. Beautiful.
Thanks, Candice! Funny you mention The Black. This was originally going to be the Prequel to Blood Skies, and there are still a bunch of similarities, but as I was revising I found I had a totally different “mythology” behind the apocalypse that comes about in SOMETHING BLACK…, so I decided to leave it as a stand-alone piece.
Heartbreaking. Masterful use of normal vs. now, the fading memories, the setting sun. Whew!
Thank you, Monica! This opening scene was actually the last part of the story I wrote, so I think that helped it capture the overall tone and feel of the novel.
Nice six! I can really feel his emotion.
Thanks, Joya!
Excellent descriptions provided in only six sentences. You got me mesmorized.
Thank you, Melinda, I appreciate that!
I can feel his anguish! Great six. Enjoy your Sunday!
You too, Carly, thank you!
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