LJ Idol 10: Week 21: Current Events

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[Warnings Under cut]Here Be Horror, graphic descriptions of violence and death
Liminality

Felix Clark was officially the oldest student at Cooper Creek. His fellow students were chanting about how he was such a jolly good fellow. The youngest of them standing on the long benches and clapping along.

This moment would remain his happiest memory for a long time to come and

Comments

[beeker121]

I can't quite tell if Felix is now a vampire or something much, much worse. This has the feeling of a history being retold.

[bleodswean]

SOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see you write this piece and so happy that Gary let you post. This is super duper creepy and the creepiness is borne of your skill. The set up, the internalizations of Felix, and all the speculative and unanswered questions of the reader. NICE job!

[eternal_ot]

I was hooked till the end. A nice spin to the tale. I love where your imagination took you :)

[rayaso]

This was such an entertaining, creepy story full of mystery and ambiguity. Very well told!

[halfshellvenus]

Looks as if you did quite a bit of research in writing this creepy tail. I thought at first it would be the story of a simple student, and never imagined the bats would be more than an incidental part of it.

Though what compels a man to make a "battery" seems as mysterious as much of what came about here. To attract bats on purpose... yes, something dark may very well be at work there.