Hyba Is Writing

That Spooky November Mood November 2023 Writing Update This past month, I've started writing again. And it has been a relatively good month for writing! Despite not reaching my usual levels of productivity with my craft, I've managed to write a couple of short stories. Which is all really great because I haven't actually been able to write for a while. Big win! One story, "Sacrificial", stands at 1k words as of my writing this, and I've put it on hold. It's about a young woman who falls in love with a man only to find herself about to be sacrificed to some eldritch monster. Currently, I'm working on a new eerie piece that is turning out to be a bit longer than previously planned. It's titled "Aunt Florence's Will", and I'm hoping to turn it into a creepy little novella (and I'm hoping to finish it soon ). I don't think it's going to be some groundbreaking kind of horror story, but I'm having a lot of fun applying d...

Return of the Disembodied Screams By which I mean, my disembodied screams, virtually transmitted. Okay, the title is a little dramatic. What I am trying to say is, I'm back! More specifically: I'm back to writing horror. 👻 The creepy, the mysterious, the horrific, the terrifying. I want to write it all!  You might know that I've been working on a horror novel for quite some time now ( An Entity In Your Midst ). It's a fun little piece that pulls together a range of terrifying encounters (and monsters) from a small, isolated mountainside town, all based on Slavic folklore. While this would logically be the project I'd pick up right about now, I'm actually going to let that one slumber for a little while longer. Instead, I want short-form. I crave short pieces that are done when they're done. After my long hiatus from writing due to my injury, writing short stories and flash fiction (and perhaps even some poetry?) seems like the best way to ease back into the...