The Whitechapel Project

I’ve been going through some of my old pieces, and I decided to post this flash fiction piece to give a taste of (unrelated) horror.

“Questions” is an older microfiction piece of mine, and it’s been through a number of revisions (including one version that made it onto the “Pseudopod” podcast). I also used a different version as a test script for my audio work on the Collection of Horrors for White Wolf Publishing. But all in all, I’ve never been satisfied with it. Today I had a frank talk with my eternal editrix and beta reader Genevieve Podleski, and I hammered out a final version. I’m probably still not going to be entirely happy with it, but I’m finally done fucking with it. (Until I change my mind, of course.)

This piece actually has a few similarities to Whitechapel. Both are first person perspective (I tend to be about fifty/fifty on first and third-person pieces), both are horror, and both came about from online input — “Questions” was written from a post where I collected words and phrases from my readers. While I think my style has matured since I wrote this, there’s enough similarities that it works as a nice aperitif. I’m not intending this piece to have anything to do with the story in Whitechapel, but it’s entirely possible that Claude could come into the story at some point. We’ll have to see how the voting goes.