First…

It’s nearly 9:00 pm on Sunday, and I nearly forgot to draw my prompt for the coming week! How does that happen? I suppose it’s because I’m sleepy, we spent the day moving kittens and their parephrenalia around, and I got caught up in the latest episode of It: Welcome to Derry. I was about to go to the other room to read The War Beyond on my Kindle when I finally remembered: It’s time!

Last week’s story:

As always, I did not end up finishing my pirate story, “The Last Testament of Tianna Chai”. It’s a pirate story, told as a series of journal entries. At least, that’s the plan. I’ve got one journal entry started for Captain Chai, but not enough.

I did, however, finish the story for the previous week, muttering keyhole and all. Part of it was inspired by a dream, part inspired by my vague memories of the novel Floating Dragon by Peter Straub. There was a lot going on in that novel, I know, but I only remember one or two scenes. So “Keyhole” is in the books, and I think that, while it is currently incoherent, it has lots of potential.

This week’s prompt:

I rolled an 8 on the d8, for horror, and a 3 on the d6 for thriller. A horror-thriller! That ought to be interesting. But here’s the prompt:

A mortician wants to uncover the horrifying secret of a submerged funhouse, but they will have to invite something evil inside.

I’m not entirely sure what to do with a submerged funhouse, and I don’t yet know why a mortician would have anything to do with one, but I’ll make it work. I almost always do.

This week’s recommendation:

On the recommendation of a friend of mine, I decided to watch Wayward, a limited-run series currently streaming on Netflix. I hesitated at first because it seemed like yet another “killer cult” series, and for awhile I wasn’t even sure if it was fiction or a documentary series about some evil camp for troubled teens.

But I was wrong. It’s a thriller about teens at an evil reform school run by the evil Toni Collette, who plays her part with glee. And Alex, the main character, is played by Mae Martin, a comedian; and this apparently put some people off because Martin is known primarily for their comedy and their ability to make people laugh rather than fear.

Wayward is a solid series. I highly recommend it.

And that’s it…

As always: Be safe, be kind, be punk af, and don’t be evil like Toni Collette.