First dark story, you ever wrote?

[winterpenwell]

I've forgotten most of the details, but it was a short story that ended with my poor protagonist finally escaping a building only to realize she had nowhere to go as zombies closed in. Well, I think they were zombies.

[Kura]

The one I'm working on right now. It's since been re-written and is a lot different now, cause when I found it and read it years later I still liked a lot of the themes and characters, it just... needed to be a LOT less... emo...

Originally I wrote No Future when was I was 14 and was heavily depressed, due to family life via. relatives fighting with mental disabilities (that were often dangerous to other family members), living in the closet about my sexuality, being treated like crap in school by the teachers, being treated like crap by my friends cause I didn't have money and couldn't afford to go places to hang out with them or buy the newest thing, feeling like I didn't have a identity and wasn't allowed to have one because I was a mixed kid, pets dying, and the general feeling like I was going to get no where in life because everyone said I was stupid and I honestly believed that I could never be smart and I would probably end up with one of the violent mental disabilities that seemed to be prominent on my mom's side of the family. (just to name a few things going on at that time) So yeah, take all that frustration, depression and anger and just mash it into a story.

The story was dark in a depressing way, with no good outlooks in life, nothing getting better for the main character, and Sin (that was the main characters name back then, don'tjudgemeIwas14) realizing as he went on that nothing he did mattered cause things were just going to get worse and he would never live out to do what he wanted to do, people around him would die, or get hurt because of him, while he himself though wanting to be important would never truly be important. The story never got better, it couldn't, cause at that moment in my life I didn't know the concept of 'things getting better' it was just not something I experienced. Things just continued to get worse and worse with the main character realizing how useless, helpless and worthless his existence is in the grand scheme of things. The story didn't have an ending, because I stopped working on it when I realized it wasn't going anywhere and I didn't know how to end it. I couldn't fix anything.

I think if I had finished writing it, it probably would have ended in the main character committing suicide, and to me at the time it would not have been a sad ending. It would have been a happy one.

[jannisheilemann]

My current book is pretty dark, but only because the world is such a depressing place.

Hyperrealism in your work can make your world seem seriously fucked up.

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[Rasp]

bleeeeeeh it would probably have been in highschool I wrote alooooot of really dark shit back then. I was NOT a happy person and I'm still not. Shockingly you can TOTALLY tell by my writing. I was writing so many pieces of garbage back then who knows which one was 'first' and if it even still exists. I destroyed most of it.

[PaulDevers]

When I was in high-school I wrote a lot of tragedies. Lovers whose lover would dramatically pass away, and stuff like that. They were pretty same-y to one another though, so most haven't survived any rewrites except one. Though it's only got some superficial similarities to the original, though, like basic characters.
I've moved out of dark for dark's sake though; hell, my problem these days is not knowing how to make no jokes in a story.

[ang3lba3]

couldn't write yet, but i dictated it to my mom and then drew pictures. It was about the little sister from Arthur (yeah, the PBS show, I know right??) and how much she hated him always getting to stay up late and do special stuff and wished he would die because he ruins all the best parts of her days.

...pretty sure my older brother was not thrilled when he read it