This time, they wanted us to write an audio drama for the 2015 contest, and to have at least two different voices participating. I called mine "Miss Fortune," and it turned out to be easier to write than anything in recent memory. I still spent a long time on the audio editing, including sound effects, homemade foley, music, and both Renee Chambliss' AND my niece's voices.
We were all given a tarot card from the Major Arcana that had to be worked into the story, and we were all given a monster the story would feature/be about. I got a double-whammy in that I know nothing about the Tarot (including "The Hermit," which was the card I got) and just as much about "The Rawhead," which was my monster.
In British folklore, The Rawhead was a kind of bogeyman, who would snatch up disobedient children if they, say, forgot to curtsy to the upper class, or made eye contact with an unmarried member of the opposite sex without a proper chaperon, or ended a sentence with a preposition. In America (particularly the Deep South), the Raw Head and Bloody Bones, as they call it, is a legendary monster made up of pig remains that stalks the night, or perhaps vegetarian restaurants.
Here be yon link:
https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/wicked-women-writers-challenge-masters-of-macabre-contest-vote-now/
You can go to their website and listen to the entries, and if you like mine best, feel free to vote for it. If not, there's always next year.
Rish Outfield, Bator of the Macabre
I'll have a listen to it when I'm at home - looking forward to it ! Good luck !
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read a book called 'The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray' ? YA story by Chris Wooding. Rawhead and Bloodybones feature in it - which is the first time I heard of them.