If that’s not a creepy demonic possesion, I don’t know what is!
You know, I only have one or two more posts where I can use that sort of title before this collection of short stories is done with? Just shows how much progress I made during winter break.
Okay, so while I waited for the research materials I’ve been looking for to come in for me at the library, I wrote a short story about a possession gone horribly wrong…for the demon. It’s about ten pages and 2800 words long, and I already know which magazine I’m going to send it to. I hope this magazine accepts it; I submitted to them years ago when i first started writing short stories for magazines. I even got a letter back from the editor saying I had potential, which only spurred me to continue writing short stories and sending them to the magazine. However, after a few rejections, I decided to hold off, to wait until I had written a truly extraordinary story before I submitted to them.
And I think with this story, I could do it. I could get published in this magazine. The story I wrote is different than other stories about possessions, and my voice has really matured and become unique in the years since I last submitted to them. I’ve learned a few tricks, polished a few skills. Heck, I’ve gotten short stories published in other places! I think it really is time I sent something to them, and I think this short story, which I entitled “Ownership”, is the one I should send to them. I hope they like it after I send it to them.
Well, that’s all for now. I hope you have a good evening, and I hope to have more writing updates in the time to come. The next short story I write will be about an autistic child attending a Native American healing ceremony, where weird things start to happen. I can’t wait to get the research done so I can start writing the final short story for the collection. Hopefully, I’ll have the collection out by May, when the Spring Semester ends for me, and then I can put it online.
And I hope you all like it. Because if I get good reviews and if a lot of people download copies, I’ll feel richer than Bill Gates, because I know people really like what I’m writing and they want to read it. That’s better than all the stocks in Microsoft combined, although the royalties from sales would definitely be nice, especially when it comes to paying for tuition, rent, and other needs I have.
Well, like I said before, good night everybody.
Rami Ungar The Writer 