Hello. I have written another thing.
My grand, lofty Halloween plans may not have come to fruition due to lack of spirit and stamina, but I still very much wanted to do something to mark the season. So here’s a piece of flash fiction, as a ghoulish little treat.
As a perpetually frustrated and easily distracted creative person, I’m forever trying out new and fresher ways to come up with ideas. For about a month last year, during a phase when I wanted to get back to drawing regularly again, I tried to do a little sketch of the most interesting image my brain had managed to conjure up during the day. One particularly gloomy evening, I drew a goblin kind of thing, and, on the opposite page, wrote about wishing there were creatures that would come and take all the negative thoughts out of my head at night while I slept. And that’s where this story came from.
May the goblins eat away the gloom in your life, too—though hopefully in a much gentler way.
Happy Halloween. 🎃
ricardo reading 