In which I didn't very much feel like sleeping, anyway.
Random notes and thoughts relating to a. a very horrifying dream I just had and b. possible inspiration for my Script Frenzy script.
Horrifying Dream
Late Victorian era England
Fancier home
Faces of the lesser characters shift and distort themselves, intentionally vague and eerie.
child "disappears" one night, a long red string, what looks like a thread from the house's carpet, is found with a note.
Older man stammers and cries, asks what he is to do with it... younger man asks what he means
Older man brings younger man to his study... top drawer is full of long red strings, he pulls out a tangled mess of them. under neath is a messy jumble of notes. He opens one. I can't read it, but a child's blood curdling scream is heard. The pov shakes viciously, then "collapses".
Story continuation:
Tale of heartbreak, intrigue, child abuse and murder in victorian england. Spectral boy is known as "Jack of Threads" due to his leaving a long red string at the site of what will then be a disappearance the next day.
Jack was the first child to "disappear", and a note was found in his scrawled handwriting, panicked, words that you would expect to have been shrieked in terror.
Jack is then presumed to be taking the children in the night, leaving only the strings and the children's own notes tied to the end of them.
Faces shift and distort for extras, the identities of the non-cast is not important, and that fact is reinforced through this means, these people could literally be anyone.
The old man seen in the beginning, by the end of the story, is found to be the one taking the children in the area, making them write their last thoughts after he has physically and sexually abused them, before/while he ties them up with a red piece of string, strangles them to death and crudely buries them, dumping the bodies in a peat bog on his grounds. He perpetuates the myth of a spectral kidnapper to hide his fault in the murders.
The massed number of notes lead back, way back for decades... the old man has been doing this for most of his life. The original Jack was a younger friend of his growing up. The old man had an "odd fascination" with him, Jack resisted, and the man attempted to overpower him, knocking him out cold. The man, unsure what to do stuffed the body in his cellar, where Jack came to, wrote a panicked note to anyone who may find him. When the man found him still alive, he in turn panicked, and, needing to make sure that the boy never got away, he took his first life, strangling Jack to death with a long red piece of string.
Now that this is out of my head and written down somewhere else, maybe i can sleep... :(
Horrifying Dream
Late Victorian era England
Fancier home
Faces of the lesser characters shift and distort themselves, intentionally vague and eerie.
child "disappears" one night, a long red string, what looks like a thread from the house's carpet, is found with a note.
Older man stammers and cries, asks what he is to do with it... younger man asks what he means
Older man brings younger man to his study... top drawer is full of long red strings, he pulls out a tangled mess of them. under neath is a messy jumble of notes. He opens one. I can't read it, but a child's blood curdling scream is heard. The pov shakes viciously, then "collapses".
Story continuation:
Tale of heartbreak, intrigue, child abuse and murder in victorian england. Spectral boy is known as "Jack of Threads" due to his leaving a long red string at the site of what will then be a disappearance the next day.
Jack was the first child to "disappear", and a note was found in his scrawled handwriting, panicked, words that you would expect to have been shrieked in terror.
Jack is then presumed to be taking the children in the night, leaving only the strings and the children's own notes tied to the end of them.
Faces shift and distort for extras, the identities of the non-cast is not important, and that fact is reinforced through this means, these people could literally be anyone.
The old man seen in the beginning, by the end of the story, is found to be the one taking the children in the area, making them write their last thoughts after he has physically and sexually abused them, before/while he ties them up with a red piece of string, strangles them to death and crudely buries them, dumping the bodies in a peat bog on his grounds. He perpetuates the myth of a spectral kidnapper to hide his fault in the murders.
The massed number of notes lead back, way back for decades... the old man has been doing this for most of his life. The original Jack was a younger friend of his growing up. The old man had an "odd fascination" with him, Jack resisted, and the man attempted to overpower him, knocking him out cold. The man, unsure what to do stuffed the body in his cellar, where Jack came to, wrote a panicked note to anyone who may find him. When the man found him still alive, he in turn panicked, and, needing to make sure that the boy never got away, he took his first life, strangling Jack to death with a long red piece of string.
Now that this is out of my head and written down somewhere else, maybe i can sleep... :(