Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Thousand-Foot Mouse

This is a story I wrote when I was a kid. Spelling and grammar have been left intact for posterity.

Nightmare
Once I told a ghost story. This was what it was. Their was this kid who was good at telling ghost stories. Once he told a ghost story so scary that it came true. There was a giant mouse and he wanted to get bigger! So he started to eat a lot of people and bugs. When he got bigger, he was about 1000 feet long! (Thats big for a mouse)! He started to attack other houses and buildings and lots of stores and stuff. They called the army, the navy, the mareins, and the US airforce base, but they could not kill it! But one time they took a m-x missle and hit the mouse. it got hurt rellaey bad then it fell down dead. The end.


Note the story-within-a-story-within-a-story structure. Pretty sophisticated for elementary school. I had probably forgotten the two framing stories by the time the mouse fell down dead.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Night Things and Completely Normal Activity

I'm sitting by myself in a hotel room late on a Saturday night in Baton Rouge. This is not particularly exciting.

What IS exciting is that my feature film Night Things is screening at the Fear Fete Horror Film Festival in Baton Rouge at 3pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012. That's 14 hours from now. You better get your butt down here.



You know what else is exciting? Season 2 of Completely Normal Activity, the web series I co-direct, began on Wednesday, October 3, 2012. That's -4 days ago. You better get your butt to our website and watch it now.