#PennedPossibilities 474 — Either share with us or tell us about a scary scene you’ve written.
- The Cantata of the Wild Soul -
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I scrambled to get upright, pushing my legs into the ground begging them to make me move, to run.
A root grabbed my foot, faltering my desperate stride to outrun the bellowing beast chasing me.
Branches and thorns collected tithes of blood and flesh as my ears guided me towards the keening call of a river.
The steam of my sweat billowed past me as I skidded to a halt on the embankment.
Before me the river coursed like a writhing wurm as wide as a field, darkened by obfuscating depths and flecked with the white of water breaking over rocks.
I glanced over my shoulder as the sound of the beast being driven onward by its master broke my attention.
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Parthia's nightmare is the closest I get to a 'typical' horror / scary scene.
The dread of running and being chased relentlessly.
There's other scenes I consider scary, but they're more emotionally complex / driven by something other than panic+tension.
The immediate aftermath of her killing the creature is infinity more scary to me because there's a visceral terror coursing through her, as she understands she might end up killing people she loves and cares about. All it would take is a thrown rock, a jab of a tool, a torch waved too close, and the adrenaline and instincts will yank her right into fight-for-survival mode, and she doesn't yet have enough control to stop if that were to happen.
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