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[ Story Concept: They Called Her Delilah ]

 *disclaimer: this concept mentions death, murder, drugs and cults. Also, this is all still just concepts - anything could be changed before it’s outlined/written.

> Genre(s): historical fiction (1969), thriller/suspense, crime fiction

> Category: New Adult, Adult

> Theme(s): cults be crazy, found family, LGBTQ+ characters, missing person, starving artists, men in the 60s/70s be serial killing, don’t do drugs kids, old hollywood, tv westerns

Synopsis: Three starving artists struggle to make ends meet in their tiny LA apartment with their day jobs working as background characters on a dying western television show. When their fourth roommate, Kathleen, disappears they're left to pick up the pieces of her troubled life. With no help from the police, the three decide to search for her on their own. Along the way, they discover just how dangerous a life Kathleen had been living The trail she leaves behind is twisted and unsettling. It's uncertain if she's even alive.

Characters -

Lucille (22): former child star, loves pink, struggling getting acting jobs after a messy breakup. Discovering herself.

Velma (19/20): smart as a whip, could probably invent a weapon of mass destruction, traveled with a band until they abandoned her.

Thomas (23): from a small Utah town, left home and his religion because they wouldn’t accept his sexuality, likes to paint.

Kathleen (19...allegedly): Daddy Issues™, easily swayed by sweet words and gifts, currently missing. Might be dead or in a cult.

Taglist: @sybil-writes @draculinawrites (I wasn’t sure if you wanted to be tagged in EVERYTHING lol but here we are) @vesaeris-writes

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Like a concept garden, this post is to detail the stories that I’ve put on the backburner/haven’t completely developed yet/are still in development. But, because I have to be different and extra, I’ve called them concept flowers cause it sounds cuter. I’m not participating in NaNo this year, so I hope all of you can accept this instead. I’ll be introducing only a couple projects here. 

P R O J E C T J O R G U M A N D

Set in the era of Vikings, Freya is the queen to a band of mercenaries, plagued by nightmares of a dark past that she can only heal by slitting the throat of the man who haunts her. She is unable to tell the difference between right or wrong anymore. All she understands is that power is the only currency she'll need to get her revenge, silence the demons in her head, and lay her past to rest.

Godwine is an Anglo-Saxon prisoner of war, a prodigy and like a son to the same monstrous man Freya dreams of slaying. He has always turned a blind eye to the distasteful acts the men he’s called brothers had committed. Now, under the control of Freya, he’s made to confront each of those horrors and to answer for them.

TRIGGERS: depictions and references to past sexual assault, graphic depictions of violence, unhealthy coping mechanisms

RATING: mature, new adult/adult

GENRE: historical fiction

THEMES: healing, forgiveness of self and others, revenge, death, grief, unhealthy coping mechanisms, dealing with trauma, found family, enemies to allies to friends to lovers

STATUS: in development, outline, planning period

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[ Story Concept: Feast of Bones ]

*disclaimer: mentions of murder, mentions of domestic violence, mentions of death/corpses and general spooky stuff. Recommended for readers 18+

>Genre(s): Adult, Supernatural/Paranormal, Romance (...kind of), Thriller, Historical  Fiction (set between 1855 and 1875)

>Themes: something’s in the woods, death, choices, hiding a dead body, freedom, love in dark places

>Characters: Juliet Swift and the creature

>Details: I would love to start drafting this story by the end of the month (Jan 2020). I’m predicting it will be a short story between 15k and 20k words. It will take place in four parts - Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.

A woman can only take so much. After putting up with years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Juliet takes matters into her own hands. His bones buried beneath the first snow fall, she knows she only has until spring before it melts away and reveals her crimes.

But that’s not her only problem. She’s a woman. Alone. With little to no food or money on a homestead in the middle of Montana. If she shows her face in town, she’ll be questioned. If she can even make it there without freezing.

To make matters worse, Juliet keeps seeing shadows moving in the corner of her eye - at the tree line where her property meets the woods.

Then the animal corpses start appearing on her doorstep.

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[ Story Concept: Project Ghost ]

*disclaimer: this talks about death and murder/filicide

> Genre: paranormal thriller, contemporary > Themes: dysfunctional family, coping, angst, hauntings, crime, small town > Charcters: Colton Reed, Clara Reed, Odette Darling

A small town is shaken after the accidental death of a local high school student Colton Reed - but he’s the only one that knows it was murder. He wakes up in his local cemetery as a ghost, surrounded by others like him. Those who still had attachments to the living world. Only the ghost can see each other. When his sister becomes their father’s next target, can he reach out from the other side before it’s too late?

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